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With Illinois entering the so-called "bridge" phase of Gov. JB Pritzker's COVID-19 reopening plan, the Peoria Park District is preparing for a full slate of summer activities and events.

"If you were born in 1900 you could expect to live on average just 32 years. Today, normal life expectancy is more than twice that."

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky about the new guidance that fully vaccinated people don't need masks indoors and how the Pfizer vaccine is now available to kids 12-15.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dramatically rolled back mask guidance for fully vaccinated people Thursday, making a major shift in the U.S.'s emergence out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Staples, a tenor vocalist, helped to ease his family's iconic gospel group into secular territory, and later found success as a manager and club owner.

President Biden continues conversations with Republicans, but major hurdles persist over what items would be in an infrastructure measure, and how it might be paid for.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen, director of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict program at the U.S. Institute of Peace, about the history and future of U.S. policy on the conflict.

The violence is taking many shapes, from Israeli warplanes to Hamas rockets and mobs of Jewish or Palestinian citizens torching cars and beating people.

When the pandemic began last year, gun sales soared and gun violence spiked.

Something went boom in outer space and sent radioactive stardust our way, and it's just been found at the bottom of the ocean.