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So many people caught the omicron variant over the winter that almost 60% of everyone in the U.S. — including most children — now have antibodies to the virus in their blood, the CDC said Tuesday.

A part of American architecture, porches also play an important role in America's literary landscape. In To Kill a Mockingbird and many other works, the space between indoor and out has been the scene of drama, conflict and nostalgia.

A growing number of Israeli reserve soldiers, frustrated at the way the war with Hezbollah was managed, are calling for senior political and military officials to resign. Some soldiers have launched a petition drive; others are protesting outside Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office. Many soldiers say they lacked vital equipment and were misled by dithering leaders.

In Waveland, Miss., many hurricane victims have stayed out of government shelters and set up a tent camp. Conditions are difficult, and some people who lost nearly everything are looking for a way to escape the town.

In the new movie I'm Not There, director Todd Haynes deploys six actors to portray the many lives of one man: Bob Dylan. Haynes talks about the unorthodox nature of the film and how he hopes it evokes Dylan's universe of the 1960s.

Ruth Gruber's career began in 1933 as a journalist, then as a member of the Roosevelt administration and then as a reporter covering post-war Europe and the development of Israel. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Gruber about her life and new book, Inside of Time.

Listeners respond to Melissa Block's story Monday on Charlotte. Many listeners wrote in with their own memories of the classic children's novel by E.B. White

Officials in New Orleans plan to demolish four public housing projects -- and build mixed-income developments. It's part of an effort to make sure poverty is not concentrated in a rebuilt New Orleans. But many public housing residents are not pleased.

Few people think of coal mining as a good career move. In Central Appalachia, a generation felt so burned by the boom-and-bust cycles that many gave up on the mines and left to work in Northern cities. But now -- in ways few would have predicted -- coal is hot again.

For many fans, hearing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band for the first time was a life-changing experience.