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Millions of Americans either hesitate or don't want to get a COVID-19 vaccine. A recent measles outbreak in the Pacific Northwest offers lessons in convincing people to say "yes" to vaccination.

When Nadia Owusu was 4 years old, her Armenian American mother disappeared from her life. When she was 13, her Ghanaian father died. Owusu reflects the losses and her biracial identity in her memoir.

Beaches are coated with plastic pellets, and a container full of nitric acid has leaked. Sri Lankan authorities are now making preparations for an oil spill.

The Kennedy Center Honors broadcast airs on CBS on June 6th. Recipients include Debbie Allen and Dick Van Dyke. It was a very different event this year.

Experts predict the volcano eruption on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent will last for days, even weeks. Officials urge people to seek safety as rescuers search for those who haven't evacuated.

Poet Tess Taylor shares her recommendations for some Election Day poetry to gird voters.

Candidate Biden heartened asylum-seekers stranded at the border with calls for a more humane policy. But a President Biden will be tested by the continued arrival of migrants from Central America.

The ancient Maya: They liked clean water as much as you do. NPR's Scott Simon talks with the University of Cincinnati's David Lentz about the discovery of ancient water filtration in Guatemala.

Germany and Belgium are still reeling from devastating floods that have killed more than 180 people.

Federal prosecutors have charged members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys with conspiracy in connection with the Capitol riot. What do those cases tell us about advance planning for the violence?