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Haiti received its first shipment of doses in July, just days after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse — and amid rising violence, poverty and the hurricane season.

With vaccines now available for children as young as 5, some school districts are easing up on their mask policies.

Fires are destroying huge swaths of forests and causing mass evacuations throughout Oregon and California. NPR discusses the latest.

NPR's A Martinez talks with former downhill skier Lindsey Vonn, a world champion and Olympic medalist, about her new memoir: Rise.

Researcher Jeffrey Sachs says that U.S. teachers are being censored for broaching certain topics. One group in New Hampshire is offering a $500 bounty for teachers who discuss critical race theory.

In the final part of Morning Edition's series about Shakespeare, co-host Renee Montagne examines the theory that the Earl of Oxford — not the man from Stratford — is actually the bard and author of the world's most famous plays.

Saddam Hussein's trial in Baghdad was disrupted when a witness wore a lapel pin with the image of the Kurdish flag instead of Iraq's banner. The flag issue has taken on greater importance in Iraq since Sept. 1. That's when Massoud Barzani, the president of Iraq's Kurdish region, banned the flying of the Iraqi flag at government buildings.

President Bush is expected to deliver two more speeches on Iraq before his holiday break. The White House is keenly aware that declining support for the war has undercut backing for the president in general -- prompting an aggressive campaign to sell the war.

Monday marks the 25th anniversary of the first report of AIDS. But only recently have scientists come to conclusions about where HIV came from. The current thinking is that the colonial horrors of mid-20th-century Africa allowed the virus to jump from chimpanzees to humans and become established in human populations around 1930. But there is still uncertainty as to why AIDS was first discovered in Los Angeles and New York, and not Cameroon, where scientists say it surely started.

Palestinians voted Wednesday in their first parliamentary elections in a decade. The election pits the ruling Fatah Party of President Mahmoud Abbas against the militant Islamic movement Hamas, which is participating in elections for the first time.