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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico about how her state passed a $330 million bipartisan pandemic relief package.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Peter Loftus of The Wall Street Journal about Moderna's history and the fact that it has never received Food and Drug Administration approval for one of its products.

One of the key foreign policy areas facing President-elect Joe Biden is Iran. He wants to reach out to Iran after taking office, but recent attacks and sanctions could be driving the country away.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with attorney Jamila Johnson about the impact of this week's Supreme Court case on people incarcerated under a split-jury system, which was deemed unconstitutional in April.

NPR pays tribute to Betsy Wade, the first woman to edit news at The New York Times and lead the Newspaper Guild of New York. She died on Thursday at age 91.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., about a proposed bipartisan coronavirus relief bill.

Relations between Australia and its biggest trading partner, China, are quickly deteriorating as it pushes back against Beijing's increasingly assertive foreign policies.

Job growth in the U.S. slowed down sharply in November. The weaker-than-expected job gains could give fresh urgency to congressional negotiations over a new pandemic relief bill.

In the pandemic-centered debate over school reopenings, teachers unions have been standing up with strike threats, legal actions and protests. Critics say this action has nothing to do with education.

German composer Nils Frahm creates songs that fuse electronic and classical music. A new concert film, Tripping With Nils Frahm, has debuted online, along with a soundtrack album.

With the help of Ric Erwin of the Fraternal Order of Real Bearded Santas, Santa Claus joins NPR to talk about measures he is planning to take this year to deliver presents safely.

Pew Research Center found 83% of Asian Americans said they would get a vaccine compared to 42% of Blacks. White and Latinx respondents were about even with 63% and 61% respectively saying they would.

Media that are supportive of leaders in Hungary, Poland and Slovenia either repeat the false claims or suggest President-elect Joe Biden is part of a vast liberal conspiracy to stifle conservatives.

Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are protesting for a 9th straight day. They accuse the government of using the coronavirus crisis to push through market-based changes without consulting them.

State leaders implemented sweeping measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Here's how changes in case numbers are affecting their reopening plans.

The legislation removes cannabis from the list of federally controlled substances and expunges low-level convictions and arrests. But the GOP Senate is not expected to take up the bill.

Here's how to self-isolate, what the new quarantine guidance means for your household, and which symptoms signal you need immediate emergency care.

Scottish songwriter and musician Karine Polwart curated a special evening of songs with connections to literature, poetry and stories for the 2019 Birnam Book Festival.

The Black teenager was killed Nov. 23 by a white middle-aged man who confronted him for playing loud music. Ellison's death is causing soul searching in the mostly white community where he lived.

The defining disco diva of 2020 performs four songs from her album Future Nostalgia for our Tiny Desk quarantine series.

Mass vaccinations will start less than a week after the U.K. approved the new drug. Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford says it could start "a long path back to normality."

Seventy years on, war participants are drawing starkly differing conclusions from the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. The decisive conflict's lasting legacy is still visible on the Korean Peninsula.

Luckily, the man in the cockpit of the single-engine plane Wednesday night happened to be an experienced aerobatic pilot, whose maneuvers impressed even the state's Department of Transportation.

Sealed into our little Zoom boxes, masked when we're in contact with others, it's easy to feel separated from the world during the pandemic. These 10 books can help break through the solitude.

U.S. employers added just 245,000 jobs last month as the runaway pandemic continued to weigh on hiring. The unemployment rate fell to 6.7% from 6.9% in October.