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How vaccine misinformation made the COVID-19 death toll worse

Array — Mon, 16 May 2022 09:51:00 +0000

As the U.S. nears one million deaths from COVID-19, analysis finds nearly a third of those deaths could have been prevented — if people had been vaccinated.

Pa. GOP Senate primary is close despite Trump endorsing Dr. Oz

Don Gonyea — Mon, 16 May 2022 09:51:00 +0000

Pennsylvania Senate candidates were out on the campaign trail over the weekend ahead of the key state's primaries on Tuesday. The Republican side has emerged as a three-way race.

A WWII veteran meets the man who found and returned his long-lost bracelet

Stina Sieg — Mon, 16 May 2022 04:39:00 +0000

A Czech hobbyist who returned a Colorado veteran's bracelet he found at a former World War II prisoner of war camp finally got to meet the veteran, traveling halfway around the world to do so.

The war has worsened disparities for women in Ukraine

Anya Kamenetz — Mon, 16 May 2022 04:34:00 +0000

Ukrainian feminists say their country came a long way, legally and culturally, in the past decade. Now advocates are trying to address sexual assault, economic hardship and other effects of the war.

What the end of Title 42 means for the U.S. border

Mon, 16 May 2022 02:32:04 +0000

The policy, which has been in effect since March 2020, can be used to close U.S. borders when there is a public health emergency (like a pandemic).

A history professor weighs in on the Buffalo attack and white supremacy

Sun, 15 May 2022 21:39:00 +0000

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kathleen Belew, an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago, on the threat of white supremacist movements in the U.S.

County official Mark Poloncarz on Buffalo’s response to the racist attack

Sun, 15 May 2022 21:39:00 +0000

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz about how the city of Buffalo, New York, is responding to Saturday's shooting.

Anger and grief in Buffalo as police call Tops market shooting a hate crime

Emyle Watkins — Sun, 15 May 2022 21:39:00 +0000

Investigators say the 18-year-old man accused in a mass shooting Saturday in Buffalo, New York, scouted the location in advance.

The shooter in Buffalo, N.Y., appeared to have become radicalized online

Odette Yousef — Sun, 15 May 2022 16:47:00 +0000

An 18-year-old from Conklin, N.Y., drove hours to attack a grocery store in a predominantly Black area of Buffalo. He is believed to have written a racist manifesto that was briefly posted online.

A local pastor addresses shooting in Buffalo, N.Y.

Ayesha Rascoe — Sun, 15 May 2022 15:42:00 +0000

Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Darius Pridgen, the president of the Buffalo Common Council and a local pastor, about Saturday's mass shooting that killed 10 people.