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After Condo Collapse, Florida Officials Scramble To Find Other Unsafe Buildings

The collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium has led officials across Florida to search for other buildings that could be structurally unsafe. On Friday, a 156-unit building was evacuated.

Inmates do a deep cleaning in a cell pod to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at the San Diego County Jail in April 2020. A new study says crowded jails may have contributed to millions of COVID-19 cases across the United States.

Crowded U.S. Jails Drove Millions Of COVID-19 Cases, A New Study Says

The U.S. jail population has a 55% weekly turnover rate, raising the risk of infections passing between communities, according to the study.

Oakland Parents Say The Pandemic Helped To Get Learning Concerns Addressed

Schools in Oakland, Calif., regularly report lower reading levels for Black and Latino students. A parent advocacy group has been demanding the district do better.

High schoolers Ethan Lincoln, Kaylee King and Jamin Crow's podcast about their experiences subsistence hunting is a finalist in the NPR Student Podcast Challenge. The students are pictured here at the KYUK radio transmitter site in Bethel, Alaska.

When Schools Shut Down In Alaska, These Students Went Moose Hunting

In the remote Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska, many families practice subsistence hunting to get food on the table. Three students reconnected with that tradition during the pandemic.

Politics Chat: Biden Administration Pushes On With Promise To Control The Pandemic

Confusing messaging from the CDC, and a more urgent push to get Americans vaccinated, plus the prospects of two infrastructure packages making their way through Congress.

Children stand in the courtyard of the Maison La Providence de Dieu orphanage it Ganthier, Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021, where a gang abducted 17 missionaries from a U.S.-based organization. The 400 Mawozo gang, notorious for brazen kidnappings and killings took the group of 16 U.S. citizens and one Canadian, after a trip to visit the orphanage.

U.S. and Haiti are seeking the release of 17 missionaries snatched by a gang

Authorities seek the release of the 16 Americans and one Canadian kidnapped in Haiti over the weekend. On Monday, unions and other organizations launched a strike to protest worsening security.

A vaccination center worker inoculates a woman with the Biontech vaccine against Covid-19 in Lower Saxony.

Europe and Russia battle a new wave of COVID-19

More lockdowns are in the offing, as Germany and Austria shatter daily case counts and Russia has become become the world leader in new COVID-19 deaths.

NASA prepares to launch the James Webb Space Telescope

NASA is getting ready to launch the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope. At mission control in Baltimore, Md., astronomers are getting ready.

Kentucky native on losing his home in deadly tornadoes

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Matthew Brazzel, a Kentucky native who lost his home in deadly tornadoes on Dec. 10. Some of Brazzel's family photos have been found across the border in Indiana.

'Foreign-backed terrorists' are behind protests in Kazakhstan, ambassador says

Kazakhstan remains in a state of emergency. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Yerzhan Ashikbayev, Kazakhstan's ambassador to the U.S., about the bloody crackdown on protesters in his country.

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