Morning Edition

One decision by the high court upholds a mandate for 10 million health care employees. The other decision blocks the rule meant for 84 million workers at companies.

NPR's Rachel Martinez speaks to U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy about the White House's new testing and masking efforts that are aimed at stopping the omicron surge.

Researchers at Cardiff University in Wales asked a group of women to rate the looks of people both masked and mask-less. It wasn't close, the masked people prevailed.

The man ordered three drinks, paid by credit card but left without tipping. Later when police released a video showing vandals setting fire to a Christmas tree, the bar was able to ID the customer.

West Liberty is Iowa's first majority Latino town and now has its first majority Latino city council. Other small towns may see it as a model for promoting a new type of political engagement.

There's been a storm of debate about an old anti-inflation policy: price controls. So we dust off the history books to see what happened in World War II.

The federal government has charged Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, and 10 others with seditious conspiracy in the most serious case to emerge from its probe into the Capitol attack.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Michael Waldman, president of the nonprofit Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School, about the fight for voting rights.

As the climate gets hotter, plants may need to grow in new locations to survive. But the animals that help spread the seeds are disappearing.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to reporter Elizabeth Kulas about Australia once again revoking tennis star Novak Djokovic's visa. This means he could be deported.

The U.S. Postal Service is making 19th century sculptor Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis the face of its 45th stamp for the Black Heritage series. The stamp will debut later this month.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Eric Witte of the Open Justice Society about the conviction in a German court of a Syrian colonel on crimes against humanity stemming from the Syrian civil war.