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The Summer Olympics are officially underway following yesterday's opening ceremony in Tokyo, a year after they were originally scheduled. COVID restrictions mean fans can't watch events in-person.

El Paso, Texas, is remembering the 23 people killed during a mass shooting at a Walmart on this day in 2019. The alleged gunman said online that he wanted to stop the "Hispanic invasion" of the state.

It's too soon to say if schools will see a surge, but they do know that kindergartners are entering their first year of school with a wide range of experience.

As Democrats keep working towards a scaled-back spending bill, the Duchess of Sussex urged them not to "compromise or negotiate" over a national paid family leave program.

Five years after Hurricane Sandy, residents of a coastal Staten Island neighborhood are selling their homes to the state, leaving behind barren and decrepit land.

Hong Kong is struggling to contain a severe outbreak of coronavirus infections.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Dnitra Landon, a GM assembly line worker at the GM Detroit-Hamtramck plant. She was recently told about planned layoffs by GM.

In Tennessee, proposed federal cuts in some areas of drug enforcement may affect the ability of authorities to seize methamphetamine -- or meth -- labs in rural communities. In 2004, Tennessee ranked second nationwide in the number of meth labs seized. From member station WUOT in Knoxville, Matt Shafer Powell reports.

High-profile Washington, D.C. politicians are testing positive for the coronavirus in a reminder that the pandemic is far from over.

Russian forces appear to be withdrawing in the area around Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, as they turn their attention and firepower further to the south and east.