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A CDC survey released in November shows that only 63% of health care workers are ready to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Concern about speed and political interference are contributing to the hesitancy.

More than 70 local public health officials have resigned or been fired since the start of the pandemic. They're over-worked and the subject of harassment from community leaders and residents.

COMMENTARY Gov. Ron DeSantis' new police bill is the state's latest assault on local government — and more imitation of socialist Venezuela

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with strategist A'Shanti Gholar, about the role Black voter turnout will play in the upcoming election now that the Supreme Court is a key issue on the campaign trail.

Sunday night's Emmy Awards, which featured neither a large crowd nor a red carpet, managed to achieve a charming intimacy as Watchmen, Schitt's Creek and Succession all won major awards.

The wealthy businesswoman replaced Georgia Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson who resigned last year. Now she's running in a crowded special election to serve out the remaining two years of his term.

A 9-year-old in Dubai is considered one of the world's top DJs. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Michelle Rasul about how she became a wizard at scratching on a portable turntable.

When Gymnast Simone Biles cited mental health as the reason for withdrawing from almost all her Olympic events, Akilah Carter-Francique understood exactly what she meant. We discuss the unique burden on Black athletes.

With the disappearance of five Hong Kong booksellers still unexplained, their colleagues who publish books about Chinese politics say they feel at risk and unprotected.

President Obama called for a greater focus on Asia to prepare for the challenges of the 21st century. A decade later, Obama's vice president, now President Biden, seems intent on making it happen.

Fox News anchor Sean Hannity urged viewers Monday to "take Covid seriously," and to believe in the science. It contradicts what he and other top anchors at Fox have said over and over again.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with New York Times Tokyo bureau chief Motoko Rich on the Japanese public's concern over the government's decision to hold the Olympics despite rising cases of COVID-19.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Debra Katz, an attorney representing Charlotte Bennett who is a former executive assistant of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

"I tried to go out here and have fun," the U.S. superstar said, "but once I came out here, I was like, 'no, mental is not there, so I just need to let the girls do it and focus on myself.'"

Scott Simon speaks with Dr. Sadiqa Kendi, division chief of pediatric emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center, about the rising number of COVID-19 cases among children.

Zucker, CNN's top executive, says he failed to disclose the relationship when it began, as the company requires. Instead, it emerged during an inquiry into former CNN host Chris Cuomo.

A new group of mostly Black and brown LGBTQ organizers are throwing the Pride March in Philadelphia on June 5, trying to rebuild the event into something more welcoming — and more revolutionary.

In the first of a series of interviews with strategists who suggest plans to end U.S. involvement in Iraq, Zbigniew Brzezinski -- national security advisor to President Carter -- details a four-point program for disengagement.

A congressional panel probing changes to elections laws across the country held a hearing in Tallahassee, illustrating a partisan divide over voting-related measures pushed in Republican-led states such as Florida.

Scott Simon speaks to businessman Bill Browder, a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, about sanctions on Russia.