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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Dr. Krishna Udayakumar, Director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center, about inequities in global vaccine access.

There's no way to really generalize what it's like to be gay in the South. But to get an idea, we spent a day with Chad Griffin — the newest president of a Washington-based gay rights group — as he spent his first day on the job in his hometown of Arkadelphia, Ark.

There are 45,000 laws, policies and administrative sanctions in the U.S. that target people with criminal records. Reuben Jonathan Miller researches how they affect people's lives in Halfway Home.

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Washington, Iowa and Colorado all have programs to offer free COVID testing to some or all of their residents. So do Boston, Philadelphia and New York.

In the futuristic, dystopian film Reign of Fire, dragons that sleep below the surface of the Earth are awakened, and they fly up and destroy major cities. The movie is set in the far-off year of 2020.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Ralph Daniel, who broke into a Pennsylvania FBI office in 1971. He is only now speaking out about his role.

Vice President Harris was in Guatemala on Monday. Next she meets with Mexico's president — on the second leg of her trip to try to address the root cause of Central American migration to the U.S.

Nevada had not been doing vaccine outreach to rural Latinos until recently. Now, state health officials are ramping up efforts to administer shots and counter misinformation.

California Senator Scott Wiener has joined lawmakers from 18 other refuge states to create legal protections for transgender minors and their parents. This comes on the heels of a new Alabama law criminalizing gender-affirming treatments for trans youth.

Senate Republicans are expected to block a vote to extend government funding and the raise the federal debt ceiling, increasing the odds of a government shutdown and a debt default in mid-October.

Boeing's airplane plants are closed. Idled employees don't know when or if they'll return to work. The aerospace giant is weighing a request for federal aid as it also considers downsizing and layoffs

Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, is under attack by Russian forces.