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The National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Gene Luen Yang passed the baton to his successor Jacqueline Woodson on Tuesday. NPR takes a look at where young people's literature is now and where the new ambassador would like to take it in the coming year.

The German government is imposing tighter restrictions on people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19, and is planning legislation to make vaccination mandatory in early 2022.

Vinny Thomas, comedian and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me guest writer, imagines traveling in space with the Bezos brothers.

The eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv is the country's largest Russian-speaking city. It's been attacked by Russia for weeks. President Biden is accusing Russian President Putin of genocide.

California's program to house people in motels in order to get them off the street during COVID is ending. But it's unclear where the more than 6,000 people living in these facilities are headed.

A new album combines Appalachian music with Chinese folk music. Young people can't get enough.

People are turning to AI chatbots to help them with medical advice. Recent studies suggest these bots are not always helpful in making decisions about health.

Daniel Cruz is managing a pet-friendly hurricane shelter at Woodlands Middle School in Sarasota County, Florida. 1,200 people are there and more are expected to arrive before Hurricane Irma hits.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Royal Ramey, the co-founder and CEO of the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, about the pathway for formerly incarcerated firefighters to build careers in the field.

Desperate families are still looking for their loved ones in the Indian state of Odisha following Friday's train accident. There's a crunch at the morgues as scores of bodies still remain unclaimed.