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The two cities are the latest to tighten public health rules to combat the spread of the omicron variant. Chicago is seeing its highest number of hospitalizations and rate of deaths in months.

Former police officer Kim Potter was found guilty of manslaughter in the killing of Daunte Wright. NPR's Sarah McCammon talks to Wright's aunt Naisha Wright and attorney Benjamin Crump.

Pop star Britney Spears has a big hearing in court Friday. It could decide whether to end the conservatorship that's controlled her life for the past 13 years.

For the second consecutive year, NPR teams up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival we call Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST.

A former New York Post editor says she was fired for disclosing she had been sexually propositioned by the tabloid's former editor-in-chief. Col Allan is a favorite of media magnate Rupert Murdoch.

Two chip factories on a 1,000-acre site just east of Columbus are expected to create 3,000 company jobs and 7,000 construction jobs, the company and local and state officials say.

President Biden said there was uncertainty among allies about how they would respond to a "minor incursion" by Russia into Ukraine. That led to alarm overseas — and a clean-up at home.

A health communications expert has developed a free online course to help people talk to those who are vaccine hesitant — and to fight misinformation with empathy.

Negotiations are coming down to the wire at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland. There's a new draft agreement, but bitter differences remain between rich and poor countries.

There was enough working against Democrats inside and outside of New Jersey for the powerful state Senate president to lose his seat to a truck driver with no political experience.