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One year after lockdown first began, NPR shares listener stories of the moment they realized COVID-19 would change their world. Steve Cross' band's possible big break was canceled during sound check.

The colossal package allocates money for COVID-19 vaccines, small businesses and anti-poverty programs like the child tax credit. Here are the highlights of the bill President Biden signed Thursday.

Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Monday giving Iowans less time to vote, making it harder to vote by mail, and enacting other wide-ranging changes to the state’s election procedures.

NPR's Michel Martin discusses the spike in anti-Asian American violence with three people who've thought a lot about it: professor Russell Jeung, journalist Eda Yu and restauranteur Jason Wang.

The scenes that have played out in India's financial capital this year with COVID-19 bear a striking resemblance to what life was like when the bubonic plague hit more than a century ago.

Sunday's anniversary of the day marchers were beaten by police in Selma, Ala., will honor the late civil rights icon. Some 56 years later, former state Sen. Hank Sanders says his work isn't done.

China's ruling Communist Party has declared "total victory" over extreme poverty. Did that really happen, and if so, how?

Bunny Wailer, the legendary reggae artist who founded The Wailers alongside Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, died in Kingston, Jamaica, on March 2.

Chinese legislators in Beijing are set to overhaul Hong Kong's elections systems. Once semi-autonomous, mainland China has curtailed freedoms in Hong Kong.

February job numbers will be released this morning. The Biden administration has ended Trump's "Remain in Mexico" program. And, the Chinese parliament discusses Hong Kong's elections.