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In the face of rising COVID cases, Dr. Bob Wachter of the University of California San Francisco offers reasons to be hopeful about the pandemic's outlook in the months ahead.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jean Chen Ho about her new book, Fiona and Jane. It describes how two Taiwanese American women who grew up in Los Angeles grow apart and find their way back to each other.

A year after the Jan. 6 riot, a new team of Capitol security leaders are in place, and congressional probes are investigating what went wrong that day. The partisan divide in Congress has intensified.

Longtime Illinois Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush announced on Tuesday that he is leaving Congress. The former Black Panther has represented the South Side of Chicago in Congress since 1993.

Democrats are making a fresh push on voting rights legislation around the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, while also trying to revive President Biden's Build Back Better agenda.

A low cost vaccine called Corbevax may help solve the problem of getting safe and effective COVID vaccines to poor and middle-income countries.

COVID hospitalizations among children have increased 97% over the last week to 575 admissions per day. Infectious disease experts talk about treating children with omicron and who is most at-risk.

Songs of Disappearance is an collection of bird calls from 53 threatened Australian species. And for a brief spell, it was a best-selling album.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Dr. Robert Jansen, chief medical officer at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., about the surge of COVID cases there.

In rural, coastal areas, rising groundwater is flooding people's properties from underneath, causing septic tanks to fail. States are responding, but it could be a losing battle in some places.