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Vaccines remain the best way to protect against serious illness. A week after the FDA gave full approval to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, it's not known if that's nudging more people to get the shot.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Brookings Institution fellow Rashawn Ray about the deadly police shooting of a Black man in Akron, and how much police video can reveal about what happened.

As protests intensify in Iran over the arrest and death in custody of a 22-year-old woman, the country's top diplomat promises an investigation into what happened but downplays the demonstrations.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Edwin Torres DeSantiago, who conducts trainings for constitutional observation of immigration enforcement.

The community of Jacumba, in California, has been overwhelmed with migrant encampments — as many as a thousand people in dire humanitarian conditions. A few weeks ago, locals say, something changed.

Anjuli Sastry (she/her) is a producer on It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders and a 2021 Nieman Journalism Foundation Visiting Fellow. During her Nieman fellowship in spring 2021, Sastry created, hosted and produced the audio and video series Where We Come From. The series tells the stories of immigrant communities of color through a personal and historical lens.

Tasneem Raja is a Senior Digital Editor for NPR's Code Switch, where she works with the team to tell deeply important, messy, urgent stories about how race and identity collide with everything else in our lives—whether we realize it or not. In this role, Raja is an editor of the upcoming Code Switch podcast, as well as editor of long-form essays on race, culture, and identity for Code Switch online.

To really understand the plastic problem in countries like the Philippines, you have to understand how consumer goods there are packaged.

Deaths from COVID-19 have jumped nearly 40% this week, and hospitals around the country are straining under their patient load. Here's what happened in the first week after Thanksgiving.