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Without enough workers to unload shipping containers, the pandemic has caused another shortage of products: boba pearls used to make bubble tea.

Several Democratic-led states are rolling back coronavirus restrictions in the face of public wariness as the omicron surge eases. Federal health officials advise those restrictions are still needed.

German courts and investigators are taking on crimes far beyond their borders — alleged war crimes by ISIS, the Syrian regime and others.

San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott is defending his recent decision to stop cooperating with the San Francisco District Attorney's Office on a mutual investigative agreement they set up three years ago.

The bill signing comes after months of work on Capitol Hill and years of changed attitudes — even as the threat looms that the conservative Supreme Court could roll back same-sex marriage rights.

Hear a different poet at 7:49 a.m. Monday - Thursday throughout the month of April, which is National Poetry Month. Today's poet is Manuel reading,…

For a second time, Mikaela Shiffrin did not finish a qualifying run. This time in her signature event: the women's slalom. This follows her fall in the giant slalom on Monday.

The driver told a U.S. Capitol Police officer he was "on patrol" and spoke about white supremacy. A machete and bayonet were found inside his pickup outside Democratic National Committee headquarters.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Robert Draper, journalist and author of Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind, about midterm election results and the future of the GOP.

The City Council votes to expand other services, including violence prevention and mental health crisis response teams. But, facing a veto threat, it rejects proposed cuts in the police force.

The day after Philadelphia became the first U.S. city to reinstate an indoor mask mandate, its transit agency announced it would drop its mandate in accordance with TSA guidelines.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Wired reporter Pia Ceres about surveillance programs on school laptops and how law enforcement's access to them creates a major privacy issue for students.