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A fourth Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot is administered at the Dr. Kenneth Williams Health Center in Los Angeles on Nov. 1.

Updated COVID booster shots reduce the risk of hospitalization, CDC reports

The CDC came out with two studies to detail the bivalent booster's effectiveness against COVID-related emergency department visits and hospitalization.

Grant Wahl's wife remembers the late soccer journalist

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Dr. Celine Gounder, wife of the late Grant Wahl, about the renowned soccer journalist's legacy.

China's COVID-19 surge

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Helen-Ann Smith, Asia correspondent for Sky News, about the growing wave of COVID-19 in China.

Elon Musk suspends — then restores — the Twitter accounts of several journalists

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Joan Donovan of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government about Elon Musk's decision to suspend and then reinstate the Twitter accounts of several high-profile journalists.

The National Cryptology Museum opened in Fort Meade, Md., and features encryptic devices used by the National Security Agency.

The revamped NSA museum opens with displays of former nuke secrets, spy artifacts

The overhaul of the aging museum in Fort Meade, Md., was unveiled just weeks before NSA's 70th anniversary in November. The museum is located near the top-secret spy agency.

Servers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi are still not back to normal two weeks after they were hacked and the data was held for ransom.

Cyberattacks on hospitals thwart India's push to digitize health care

Prime Minister Modi's ambitious plan to transition all Indians' health records online is running up against weak cybersecurity systems and a lack of data protection laws.

Guitarist Jeff Parker, whose free-form album <em>Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy</em><em> </em>was among the best jazz releases of the year, according to our critics.

The story of jazz in 2022: A year-end listening party

After a year defined by emergence and creative combination, our critics zoom in on their own listening to choose one inescapable album and song each.

Lebanese activists gather outside a local bank in support of Abed Soubra, who stormed the branch demanding access to his own accounts, in Beirut on Sept 16. Lebanese police detained Soubra after he entered the bank and, armed with a gun, demanded access to his deposits. It was the third such incident in Lebanon that week alone.

People in Lebanon are robbing banks and staging sit-ins to access their own savings

Lebanon's banks froze accounts three years ago amid an economic collapse. Now, under increasingly desperate circumstances, people are resorting to extreme measures to access their savings accounts.

YoungBoy Never Broke Again (aka NBA Youngboy) is among a handful of rappers who achieved massive streaming numbers in 2022 while remaining nearly invisible to the pop establishment.

How niche rap stars quietly conquered 2022

Artists like NBA YoungBoy, Rod Wave and a resurgent Kodak Black pulled in massive streaming numbers this year (and, at times, outran controversy) while barely registering on mainstream pop's radar.

Methadone and other opioid-addiction medications are proven to save lives. But most people addicted to fentanyl, heroin and pain pills never get medical treatment.

People addicted to opioids rarely get life-saving medications. That may change.

The Biden administration is moving to make it easier for Americans with opioid addiction to gain access to medical treatments proven to save lives.

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