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The U.S. has reached a new, worrisome high: it's surpassed a daily count of nearly 120 thousand new confirmed coronavirus cases, a 20 percent jump in just one week.

About half of dialysis patients nationally are Black or Latino and vulnerable to severe Covid-19 or death. Many get dialysis three times a week, so vaccinating at those centers would be efficient.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dylan Baddour, freelance journalist in Bogota, about Colombia's changing policy for Venezuelan military defectors, moving them out of guarded hotels.

Paying taxes can be agonizing. So can shopping for health insurance. But a handful of states have made enrolling in subsidized or free coverage a little easier for people when they file their taxes

The Pentagon's release of documents detailing the hearings of Guantanamo detainees has cracked open a window into the government's top-secret world. The 5,000 pages offer unedited transcripts that include names and stories from some of the prisoners at the base. The documents were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Associated Press.

One Ukrainian woman planted flowers after Russia took over her town — to show she wasn't going anywhere. Now the Russian forces are gone and she and the town are trying to pick up the pieces.

European journalists Serge Michel and Michel Beuret have chronicled China's push into Africa in the new book China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa. Guy Raz talks with Serge Michel about why it's in China's interests to maintain a level of tension in Sudan.

Voters across the country will weigh in on more than 70 ballot measures this fall — the most in a decade. NPR takes a look at how ballot measures can become political chess pieces for outside interests from the view of Maine and Colorado.

A massive wildfire on Catalina Island, off the coast of Los Angeles, has forced hundreds of people to evacuate. It now threatens the resort town of Avalon, as well as several threatened or endangered species, including a rare island fox that only recently has been making a comeback.

N.K. Jemisin won Hugo Awards for the first two volumes of her Broken Earth trilogy. The Stone Sky is a powerful, timely finale to this story of a world built on oppression and exploitation.