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Yvette Richards, director of community connection at St. James United Methodist Church in Kansas City, Mo., checks temperatures before Sunday morning services. The church is hosting vaccination clinics and holding socially distanced services after shutting down for much of the pandemic.

In Missouri And Other States, Flawed Data Makes It Hard To Track Vaccine Equity

Data collection for race and ethnicity vary among states, complicating efforts to distribute COVID-19 shots to all groups. In Missouri, health officials have questioned the data's usefulness.

Bob Dole testifies before a Senate committee in 2007. The 1996 Republican presidential nominee and longtime GOP Senate leader has died.

Bob Dole, longtime GOP senator and 1996 presidential nominee, dies

After recovering from wounds suffered in World War II, Dole went on to represent Kansas in Congress for more than 30 years.

alt-J's "U&ME" is featured in October's edition of Heavy Rotation.

Heavy Rotation: 8 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing

NPR member stations share a mix of popular songs playing on their airwaves in October, including music from alt-J, Anderson .Paak, The Killers and more.

A year later, events scheduled to remember George Floyd, others killed by police

Tuesday, May 25 marks the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. There are protests and memorial events planned in several Michigan cities to mark the…

Caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd migrate onto the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Alaska. The refuge has long been eyed for oil exploration.

Trump Rushes To Lock In Oil Drilling In Arctic Wildlife Refuge Before Biden's Term

The Jan. 6 auction was set before the end of the comment and nominations period. If leases are finalized before Joe Biden takes office, they could be difficult to revoke.

Oklahoma's Pardon and Parole Board recommended earlier this month that Julius Jones' death sentence be commuted to<strong> </strong>life in prison.

Okla. governor grants clemency to Julius Jones hours before he was set to be executed

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones after a public outcry. Jones, who maintains he was wrongly convicted of a 1999 murder, now faces life in prison without parole.

Cornell University Professor Saule Omarova testifying on fintech at a hearing organized by the Senate Banking committee on Sept. 18, 2018. Today, Omarova is President Biden's nominee to head the agency that oversees the majority of the assets held by the country's banks, and she will appear in front of the same Senate committee for her confirmation hearing on Thursday.

A look into the ugly and incredibly personal fight over Biden's pick to oversee banks

An ugly battle is being waged over Saule Omarova, President Biden's nominee to oversee most of the money held by banks. Her confirmation hearing is on Thursday.

Marge Loennig, 87, says her hometown of Baker City, Ore. has become divided during the Covid-19 pandemic, a far different time than during the polio crisis when she was younger.

Vaccinated seniors navigate life in mostly unvaccinated rural America

Vaccination rates in much of rural America remain low. But there's one consistent holdout demographic: seniors, many of whom remember lining up eagerly as children to get the polio vaccine.

A Georgia Tech employee receives a Pfizer coronavirus vaccination on the campus April 8. For a number of Americans, getting their shots is as easy as showing up to their workplace as some companies and institutions provide on-site vaccinations to their employees.

For Some Americans, Getting A Vaccine Is As Easy As Showing Up To Work

Companies like Tyson and Amazon are offering on-site coronavirus vaccinations to their employees in order to remove barriers to getting the shots.

NASA Satellite To Measure Global Sea Level Rise

Space is the best place — maybe the only place — to get a complete picture of how climate change is affecting the Earth's oceans. And what happens in the ocean does not stay in the ocean.

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