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Every morning for more than a week, hundreds of balloons will lift off the ground at once in an unrivaled kaleidoscope of color at the largest celebration of the sport in the world.

The Columbus Division of Police released silent video of the fatal shooting Wednesday. The officer who fired the shots has been placed on paid administrative leave.

A decade after the hurricane, the city has mostly bounced back, but not the African-American neighborhood with some of the worst damage. Many people didn't return; life's a struggle for those who did.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer about her county's recent surge in COVID-19 cases and what's being done about it.

COVID-19 cases in the state are surging and 80,000 vaccine doses are about to expire. Government and health officials are traveling the state, making the case for vaccines as the delta strain spreads.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Craig Spencer of New York-Presbyterian and Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan, about the omicron variant's effect on medical care in the U.S.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks Mariana Budjeryn, a Ukrainian and a nuclear expert at Harvard's Belfer Center, about the dangers of Russia seizing control of Ukraine's nuclear power plants.

NASA marks a sad occasion this week, the 20th anniversary of the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. NPR's Howard Berkes remembers the rush to understand why the Challenger had exploded.

A Utah legislative commission has voted to move forward with suing the federal government in an attempt to seize control of millions of acres of federal land.

David Greene talks to author Masha Gessen about her new book, The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, a look into the experiences that led the Tsarnaev brothers to carry out the Boston Bombing.