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Each year, Reno, Nev., has several months of below-freezing temperatures. A longtime advocate for homeless people in the city has established a warming center that offers a safe place to stay.

The job of cooking pre-flight meals for astronauts is up to a team of chefs at NASA's Kennedy Space Center which aim to make their guests feel at home — and keep them safe before flight.

On this week's episode of Out and About, Dr. Mae Gilliland of ArtsPartners of Central Illinois talks with Crystal Potthoff, artist and facilitator of ‘Breaking Free’, a community art project centered on the meditative folk art of pysanky.

On this week's episode of Out and About, Dr. Mae Gilliland of ArtsPartners of Central Illinois talks with Chetna Maini, founder of Spandan School of Kathak, about SANGAM, an evening of Indian classical music and dance happening March 8 at the ICC Performing Arts Center. The program brings together Kathak dance and live Tabla in a three-part presentation that traces the artistic journey from student to master.

The Death Penalty Information Center, which opposes capital punishment, says executions dropped in part because some states had issues with their lethal injections.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will close the laboratories after last month's possible exposure of dozens of workers to anthrax and the discovery of a vial of smallpox this week.

At the VETS Peer to Peer Outreach Center in Watertown, N.Y., veterans come to socialize and connect. Veterans Tim Cryster and Dave Robertson lead a team that helps their peers find support.

Sgt. 1st Class Alvaro Barrientos was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds sustained last month in Afghanistan. It was President Trump's first visit to Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, MD.

A new poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press suggests a significant negative shift in perceptions of the United States among people in 44 nations, including many in the Muslim world. But as NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports, the poll also exposes many contradictions. Much of the world, for example, believes that Iraq is a threat to Mideast stability -- but are suspicious of American motives. Read the results of the entire poll.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Tuesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children or healthy pregnant women. Kennedy is a longtime vaccine skeptic.