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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to journalist Jon Wertheim about tennis star Naomi Osaka's decision to withdraw from the French Open after facing penalties and fines for her decision to boycott media.

Mice are plaguing Australia, from rural farms in New South Wales to cities like Sydney. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sybilla Gross, a Bloomberg News reporter, about efforts to end the crisis.

After a year and a half of pandemic life, many people are nervous about in-person socialization. Experts explain the factors influencing our awkwardness and exhaustion, and the best path forward.

One particular species can transmit rabies, news that's concerning federal agriculture officials because the bats like to feast on the blood of large farm animals.

After John Prine died last year, Sturgill Simpson offered to cover the song "Paradise" for the upcoming tribute album "Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2."

Oxford-AstraZeneca promised its COVID-19 vaccine would be effective, cheap and available worldwide. Five months after its launch, the path forward has been anything but smooth.

He's taking the occasion to speak about new initiatives in housing and federal contracting designed to address the racial wealth gap.

A federally funded clinic in rural Mississippi embodies the history of community health centers in the U.S., and shows how these safety-net clinics can help minority patients during the pandemic.

International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound says organizers are taking risks into account. "Nobody wants to put on games where you have an increased risk of transmission," he says.

In her latest collection, Chinese American poet Muriel Leung considers what it means to assimilate, and ultimately heal, against the collective memory of grief and vulnerability.