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Now that Gov. Asa Hutchinson has vetoed a ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, state lawmakers are considering voting to override the veto.

A medical team in New York City says it has performed the first complete surgical transplant of a trachea. These kinds of transplants are one of the last big transplant challenges.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Paul Meyer, CEO of The Commons Project, about his organization's work on digital vaccine passports, and how vaccine passports as a concept would work.

By law, the government can't monitor domestic Internet traffic. Hackers suspected of being Russian exploited this blind spot by disguising their origins and working through unwitting U.S. companies.

A feminist son, says author Sonora Jha, means "a boy who believes in the full humanity of women and girls around him." It also means recognizing that as they grow older, they can be led by women.

The Minneapolis police chief testified that ex-officer Derek Chauvin violated policies when he knelt on George Floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes. Chauvin is accused of murder in Floyd's death.

Minneapolis' police chief testifies in Derek's Chauvin's trial. Talks aimed at bringing the U.S. and Iran back into the nuclear deal begin. After months of lockdown, the U.K. is reopening gradually.

1.5 trillion dollars for next year's budget, plus a 2.3 trillion dollar infrastructure plan: President Joe Biden's asking Congress for a lot of money to further his ambition agenda.

A coronavirus variant that originated in the UK is now the most dominant strain in the U.S. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with former USAID administrator Raj Shah about the global COVID-19 response.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Gus Noble, community president at Caledonia Senior Living and Memory Care in North Riverside, Illinois, about what to expect when reuniting with loved ones with dementia.