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The jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial began deliberating Tuesday. They'll have to decide if he was defending himself when he shot three people or caused needless deaths by acting as a vigilante.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Richard Trenchard, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' representative in Afghanistan, about a worsening hunger crisis there.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., about Biden's policy agenda and the future of the social spending package, Build Back Better.

The Vacancies Act says many temporary government appointees cannot remain in their posts after the 300th day of a president's first year in office.

Pfizer says it is willing to share rights to its COVID-19 pill, Paxlovid. It's an oral antiviral drug that can be taken outside the hospital, which could be a help to low income countries.

In recent years, conversations around race and social justice have come to the fore. Trans-racial and trans-national adoptees share how it can be hard to express their thoughts about these issues.

School vaccine mandates go back 200 years. They've defeated many legal challenges. Will they work for COVID?

Stewart doesn't go easy on Diana, but there's an underlying compassion that never wavers as we follow the Princess of Wales during an especially miserable stretch of her famously unhappy marriage.

In a process resembling a Powerball drawing, ping pong balls with the names of a dozen federal appeals courts were placed into a wooden raffle drum on Tuesday before a winner was drawn.

The agreement covers 95 nations, but it omits hard-hit countries such as Russia, Turkey, Brazil, and Mexico. Pfizer said it is seeking authorization for emergency use of the medication in the U.S.