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Advisers to the CDC met to discuss some side effects associated with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. In a small number of recipients the vaccines may be causing temporary inflammation to the heart.

Ilona and Claude Blouin are among the Americans in U.S. quarantine after going to China. They were visiting their son Craig in Wuhan, the center of the coronavirus epidemic. He stayed in Wuhan.

In Kharkiv, Ukraine, people are trying to help each other amid attacks from Russia's military. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to resident Oleksandr Honcharov.

Health experts are "fairly certain" that nine people had enough direct contact with an Ebola patient that they could potentially have been infected. None of them have shown symptoms, the CDC says.

The Las Vegas mass shooting and the California wildfires are the latest incidents that have drawn listeners to apps allowing the public to listen to police and fire frequencies. Why do people do it?

Some Tennessee lawmakers are pushing for those convicted of crimes to serve their full sentences. But critics worry that without incentives for early release, prisoners won't be motivated to change.

Manguso made a name for herself in minutely observed memoirs. Now she uses fiction to write about what it is to feel poor, poorly nurtured, and inadequately loved in a class-conscious town.

The video game Farming Simulator has found a loyal and niche audience in the gaming world. This isn't the cheesy Farmville game from years ago, but one emulating the real challenges of running a farm.

Words related to the natural world, such as 'river,' 'moss,' and 'blossom,' have dramatically declined in English-language books over the last 200 years.

About a third of Americans are working from home because of the coronavirus. The technology that enables this has been around for many years, but it took a pandemic to force the move to remote work.