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Some Kentucky hospitals have been over capacity with COVID patients for nearly two months and are getting help from the National Guard. The governor expects them to stay full for another month.

Many of these newly extinct species likely disappeared decades ago but knowing for certain can be difficult.

Hurricane Ida walloped south Louisiana a month ago. The killer storm wrecked lives and buildings. Now, kids are beginning to head back to classrooms for the first time since the hurricane.

Two scientists who helped explain how we sense temperature and touch have received the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Their research could lead to new pain treatments.

A man "wearing full ninja garb" staged the attack in the middle of the night at a small airport in California, officials say.

NPR's Ted Clark reports the death of Pol Pot does not close the book on the Khmer Rouge's crimes against humanity. U.S. officials still seek to bring to justice many of Pol Pot's lieutenants who were eager and willing participants in the brutal genocide that their movement orchestrated.

A new study released today reports growing violence on television. The 3-year National Television Violence Study was conducted by researchers from four universities. They found two thirds of the network prime time and cable programs monitored in June 1997 contained physical violence. In comparison, half the programs monitored in October 1994 were considered violent. The study also concluded that the current TV rating system is an inadequate way to inform parents about television violence. NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports.

Reporter Jennifer Glasse reports from Kinshasa on U.N. Secretary General Kofi Anan's announcement today that he was withdrawing a team of investigators who have been probing massacres of Rwandan refugees in the Congo. The team has encountered persistent obstacles while attempting to gather information about Hutu refugee killings.

Commentator Iain Guest saw the killing fields dug up in 1980, and returned to Cambodia in 1992 to work with the United Nations. He feels that Pol Pot's legacy has been thoroughly distorted.

NPR's Joe Palca has a report on the apparent failure to reproduce the experiment that created Dolly, the world's first cloned sheep. In one sense it's not surprising -- it took Scottish scientists nearly 300 attempts before Dolly was cloned, a time consuming process that involves many animals and many years. But there also appears to be relatively little interest among scientists to try to reproduce the experiment - an experiment that is necessary to prove that Dolly isn't a fluke.