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NPR's Noel King talks to Dr. Sherri Young, a health official in West Virginia, about the state's current COVID-19 surge overwhelming hospitals, and the low vaccination rate.

Burning fossil fuels must decline almost immediately, a new study finds, for the planet to avoid more extreme floods, droughts and heat waves.

The flightless bird with an outsize persona personally greeted thousands of guests in his lifetime and was said to prefer the company of humans over his fellow penguins.

More than 500 companies submitted applications for 6.5 million vaping products to the FDA. The agency ruled on some of them but did not yet make a decision on products made by Juul.

The FBI is asking the American public to review the new information and come forward with any information about the possible identity of the bomb-maker.

Burns and his animated pup helped teach kids about kindness on their show Blue's Clues. He left the show abruptly. In a video message celebrating the show's 25th year, he said, " I never forgot you."

A criminal justice professor says the three police officers from Normal who fatally shot a gunman at a mobile home park appeared to be coordinated and well trained.

But the researchers stressed that all three vaccines, including the Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson shots, provide strong protection against people getting so sick that they end up in the hospital.

When COVID hit the U.S., writers of The Morning Show on Apple TV+ scrapped a year's worth of work to make the fictional TV show's new season newsworthy.

What do we know about breakthrough infections in vaccinated people? Will Stone explains and shares the story of how surprised he was to get a breakthrough infection himself.