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About 75% of the deaths were people above the age of 65.

The police conducted raids in the city of Dresden and the nearby town of Heidenau come after a group allegedly organized online to kill Saxony's state premier, Michael Kretschmer.

The declines many school districts reported last year have continued, an NPR investigation finds. What educators don't know is where those students have gone.

The new HBO documentary — Street Gang: How We got to Sesame Street — shows how one of the most beloved children's TV shows was created.

Many colleges are telling students to prepare for another term of masking, testing and, if cases get bad, limits around social life.

The U.S. also surpassed 50 million COVID-19 cases, the most in the world. Two experts who raised early warnings discuss how the losses continue to deepen, despite the arrival of vaccines a year ago.

A Grinnell man was sentenced to life in prison Monday for the brutal killing of Michael Williams, a Black man whose body was found burning in a roadside ditch in 2020. The judge gave a blistering rebuke of Steven Vogel, calling him a "cold-blooded murderer with hatred in his heart."

The trial of a prominent Harvard University scientist opens Tuesday in federal court in Boston. Defendant Charles Lieber is one of the world's leading researchers in nanotechnology.

Blinken reiterated the U.S. commitment to a "free and open Indo-Pacific" and pledged to strengthen relationships with partners in the region. His remarks came in Indonesia, the first stop on the trip.

With opioid overdoses surging, harm-reduction groups are calling on the FDA to change naloxone's prescription-only status. This would make it easier to get the lifesaving drug to people at risk.