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There was lots of good news on the economic front this week. Consumers are spending more money and fewer people are getting laid off.

The CDC's new guidance that it's safe for fully vaccinated people to go without masks, even indoors, has led to a confusing situation for businesses, which now have to decide what to do on their own.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Marc Elias, a voting rights attorney with Perkins Cole, about the bills proposed by Republican state legislators to restrict how and when to vote in their states.

Host Michel Martin speaks with Elizabeth Hume, acting president and CEO at the Alliance for Peacebuilding, about doing humanitarian work in Afghanistan under the Taliban.

South Africa, after initial struggles to obtain sufficient vaccine for its population, is finally administering the COVID-19 vaccine to hundreds of thousands of citizens.

Kurdish forces once allied with the U.S. in the fight against ISIS have forged a new alliance with Syria after Washington abandoned them. The deal has sparked a new exodus of people from the region.

Many other companies use the peanut butter — the cause of a salmonella outbreak — and now they have recalls of their own. The FDA says the products made it to at least 10 other countries.

The World Health Organization said more than half of Europe will be infected with COVID in the coming weeks. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dr. Hans Kluge of the WHO on what that means for the region.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The Moscow Times, about the Russian government's decision to drop drug charges against investigative journalist Ivan Golunov.

"Jaws" is 50 years old this week. In 1975, it launched the career of director Steven Spielberg and introduced the concept of the summer blockbuster. Hear Tom Shales' original review for NPR.