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There is growing anger in Japan that the government is pressing ahead with this summer's Olympic games — as COVID-19 cases continue to rise there.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Dr. Leana Wen, emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University, about the CDC's new mask guidelines for people vaccinated against COVID-19.

NPR's Noel King talks to Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency, about the risk of cyberattacks on the country's infrastructure, following the Colonial Pipeline shutdown.

El Salvador's President Niyib Bukele says he was just cleaning out a corrupt house when he removed five supreme court judges and the country's attorney general. The U.S. says it was a power grab.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say fully vaccinated people against COVID-19 can resume activities indoors or outdoors, in gatherings large or small, without masks or distancing.

Former U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake decries the GOP's ousting of House Republican Conference chair Liz Cheney, and warns that widespread refusal to accept election results undermines U.S. democracy.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to freelance reporter Mariana Zuñiga about the latest from Venezuela, where security forces blocked opposition lawmakers from a special session of the National Assembly.

Mohammad Javad Zarif tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that last week's assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani was "a cowardly armed attack" that "amounts to war."

Cybersecurity is nothing new but as hackers look to infiltrate more of the devices we use every day, there's growing concern about those used in the medical industry.

The majority of false claims about COVID-19 vaccines on social media trace back to just a handful of influential figures. So why don't the companies just shut them down?