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In Selma, Ala., Kamala Harris reflects on the current fight for voting rights

Vice President Harris joined the march across the Edmund Pettus bridge on the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when Black voting rights activists were beaten by state troopers.

Bill Barr won't back a 2024 Trump run but doesn't quite condemn his former boss

Former Attorney General William Barr spoke with NPR about his new memoir, former President Trump's election lies and why he thinks Trump shouldn't try to return to the White House.

Margarette Osias, patient navigator for the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition, helps a patient schedule a cancer screening. Osias is a bilingual Haitian Creole speaker, which helps her connect with the community she works with in Sussex County, Del.

Delaware is shrinking racial gaps in cancer death. Its secret? Patient navigators

The state's program of free cancer screening and treatment is reducing inequities. Key to its success is robust outreach by patient navigators who connect with those least likely to seek care.

Kindergarteners wear masks while listening to their teacher amid the COVID-19 pandemic at Washington Elementary School in Lynwood, Calif., on Jan. 12. Gov. Gavin Newsom delayed a closely watched decision on lifting California's school mask mandate on Feb. 14 even as other Democratic governors around the country dropped them.

Many parents are angry over COVID policies. They could be key to GOP 2022 gains

Republicans believe COVID-19 policies largely backed by Democrats are causing a schism among parents of school-age children and that will help the GOP win elections this year up and down the ballot.

As COVID spread in federal prisons, many at-risk inmates tried and failed to get out

Federal prisons saw a significant rise in deaths during the pandemic years, NPR found. Of those who died from COVID-19, nearly all were elderly or had health conditions, and many had tried to get out.

Placards featuring ruling and opposition presidential candidates hang over a street in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 17, 2022.

In South Korea, the 'Squid Game Election' campaign gets ugly

Negative campaigns are aggravating South Korea's already severe political divide as presidential elections approach on Wednesday.

Gov. Kim Reynolds gives her Republican response to the State of the Union address with the illuminated Iowa Capitol Building in the background.

March 7: Last week at the Iowa Legislature

Get caught up on the latest from the Iowa legislature here.

Nurses perform timed breathing exercises on a COVID-19 patient on a ventilator in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the la Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France on Dec. 31, 2021.

Death toll surpasses 6 million for the pandemic now in its 3rd year

Health care experts say that confirmed deaths represent a fraction of the true number of deaths due to COVID because of limited testing.

People arrive by train to Lviv, Ukraine, and head to the station's exit.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (March 6)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The kids at West Side Elementary in Healdsburg, Calif., handed out Peptoc hotline cards to the public to help spread the word about the project.

Press 3 for a pep talk from kindergartners. A new hotline gives you options for joy

What started as an art project at a California elementary school has gone viral. The free hotline offers wise advice and encouraging messages from kids to anyone who calls.

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