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For decades, the U.S. has spent many millions hunting down viruses in hope of stopping a pandemic. Yet the efforts failed. A group of researchers thinks there's a better strategy for the future.

President Biden made the pitch for a larger federal role, framed new programs aiding children as essential for the middle class and marked history in the House chamber with two top women.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Ambassador Susan Rice, who serves as the director of the U.S. Domestic Policy Council, about President Biden's first 100 days in office and his agenda.

A judge denied a motion to release police video of the April 21 killing of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man, by sheriff's deputies. Court deliberations revealed dramatic new details of what happened.

The U.S. economy grew at a rapid pace in the first three months of the year as more people got vaccinated and the federal government pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into people's pockets.

The imprisoned Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny has announced that he is ending his 24-day hunger strike.

Six Chinese men survived the sinking of the Titanic. Their stories were lost to history until the documentary The Six showed how their lives were shaped by America's restrictive immigration policies.

The CDC's vaccine advisory committee met Friday to decide how to proceed with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is possibly linked to rare, dangerous side effects.

Scientists in Michigan went out in the dead of night to dig up part of an unusual long-term experiment. It's a research study that started in 1879 and is handed from one generation to the next.

Shock G, the frontman for the hip-hop group Digital Underground, died yesterday at 57. He was best known for the song "The Humpty Dance," and helped launch the career of Tupac Shakur.