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Al Bilali Soudan: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

The Timbuktu group bring Tamasheq music from their living room to yours.

A patient sits in bed on the COVID-19 ward at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle earlier this month. COVID patients are filling up acute care units here and at hospitals across the country, even though omicron tends to cause milder cases.

Why omicron is crushing hospitals — even though cases are often milder than delta

People who get infected with omicron are less likely to go to the hospital, go on a ventilator or die. But with the current huge volume of patients, hospitals are still struggling to treat them all.

Tufan Derince: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Ever heard the elektro bağlama? You're about to, in this electronic update on Turkish folk music.

Microglia, specialized cells like the one seen in the center of this image, can restrain the accumulation of beta-amyloid protein (plaques in orange) that are a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease. But the cells sometimes contribute to the progression of the illness, researchers say.

How a hyperactive cell in the brain might trigger Alzheimer's disease

Microglia are amoeba-like cells that scour the brain for injuries and invaders. But sometimes the usually helpful cells go into overdrive and damage the brain, researchers say.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks to reporters during a news conference at United Nations headquarters on March 1, 2021.

U.S. officials say Russia will face pressure at the U.N. over Ukraine

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says the U.N. Security Council will press Russia hard in a Monday session to discuss its massing of troops near Ukraine ahead of a possible invasion.

Neil Young (left) in 2016 and podcaster Joe Rogan in 2012. Spotify said Sunday that it will add content advisories before podcasts discussing the coronavirus. The move follows protests of the music-streaming service that were kicked off by Young over the spread of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.

Joe Rogan has responded to the protests against Spotify over his podcast

Rogan responded Sunday, saying in a video on Instagram that he was only seeking to have conversations on his podcast with people who have "differing opinions."

A person shovels out homes and cars near the Bunker Hill Monument in Boston, Mass., on Sunday. Blinding snow whipped up by powerful winds pummeled the eastern United States into the early hours Sunday as one of the strongest winter storms in years triggered transport chaos and power outages across a region of some 70 million people.

Power has returned to some homes walloped by the weekend 'bomb cyclone'

Record snow in parts of the Northeast left thousands without power.

Child care workers in California face health insurance challenges

The risks are even greater as child care workers deal with the youngest among us still not eligible for COVID-19 vaccines.

Ukrainians brace for 'likely' Russian invasion

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly brings us the latest news from Kyiv, Ukraine.

Protest against COVID mandates roils Ottawa despite officials' plea for it to end

The so-called "Freedom Convoy" was originally set up to oppose the federal government's vaccine mandate and now participants say they have no plans to leave.

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