The Coronavirus Crisis
April 19, 2021
Colleges around the country faced an admissions season marked by pandemic-era challenges: dropped testing requirements, remote learning, disrupted extracurriculars and record applicant pools.
Coronavirus Updates
April 19, 2021
Families and friends met in airports for the first time in over a year after Australia and New Zealand opened a "bubble" of quarantine-free travel between their countries.
National Security
April 19, 2021
We look at the security for Minneapolis and nearby areas, including a quiet protest outside the Brooklyn Center police station.
Author Interviews
April 19, 2021
Caleb Azumah Nelson's Open Water is built on a familiar premise: two young people meet and fall in love. Nelson's debut novel is brimming with references to Black art, music, poetry and photography.
Health
April 19, 2021
Vaccination rates for Black and Latino people in Philadelphia are half those of their white and Asian counterparts. It appears lack of access is more to blame than hesitancy to get vaccinated.
Asia
April 19, 2021
India is now where the coronavirus is spreading fastest. With shortages of hospital beds, oxygen and vaccines, the country's health system is near collapse.
Europe
April 19, 2021
Millions of people in the U.K. who were hesitant or against taking the COVID-19 vaccine have changed their minds. NPR visited a mosque-turned-vaccination center at the cutting edge of that battle.
National
April 19, 2021
Without enough workers to unload shipping containers, the pandemic has caused another shortage of products: boba pearls used to make bubble tea.
Sports
April 19, 2021
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Roger Bennett, co-anchor of the Men In Blazers podcast, about the proposed breakaway European Super League and the impact such a move would have on soccer.
Space
April 19, 2021
NASA announced that a small helicopter sent to Mars aboard the Perseverance rover took flight — the first controlled, powered flight on another planet. The helicopter took aerial photos of Mars.
