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Scott Simon talks with Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant about how the world of Sports is reacting to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Inspectors discovered thousands of rodents at a Family Dollar warehouse, and now hundreds of stores have temporarily closed in order to deal with a recall of possibly contaminated products.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday evening announced an end to the state’s school mask mandate shortly after the Illinois Supreme Court denied his appeal seeking the justices overturn a Sangamon County judge’s decision earlier this month that sought to halt the governor’s executive orders requiring masking in school settings.

Scott Simon talks to musician Emily Wells about her new album, "Regards to the End," which reflects on how lessons learned from the AIDS crisis can be applied to the climate crisis.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is on the minds of people in rural New York. Locals are worried about troop deployments and if gas and food prices will rise as a result of the conflict.

The Bloomington-Normal NAACP praised President Joe Biden on Friday for keeping his promise to nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.

President Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Friday. She next faces the U.S. Senate in a confirmation process.

Mask mandates are going away around the country, so shops and restaurants are developing their own policies based on personal choice and risk tolerance.

Street fighting broke out early Sunday in Kharkiv as Russian troops pushed into Ukraine's second-largest city, according to a regional official as the capital, Kiev, continued to hold out.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi about the situation in Ukraine and how the Russian invasion has displaced thousands of Ukrainians.