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A 1950 law allows the government to award contracts that take priority over all others for national defense. During the pandemic, the law has been used to defend the country against the coronavirus.

The Spanish-language EP presents a more intimate image of a pop singer who's still trying to find space for who she is and who she wants to be.

Uncertainty and unrest during the last year have lead millions of Americans to buy guns for the first time. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to one of them, Ermiya Fanaeian of Salt Lake City.

Mexico is close to legalizing recreational cannabis. What does that mean for the drug cartels there?

Following the finale of The Bachelor, a look at what the season amounted to and issues that need to be addressed by the show.

There's growing criticism in Europe of some countries' governments deciding to suspend the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, since experts say there's no link between the shot and blood clots.

A ban on girls singing in public imposed by Afghan education officials is being reviewed after a social media campaign in which local women belted out their favorite songs in videos online.

The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 aid bill has passed. President Biden is now hitting the road to promote it, starting in the Philadelphia suburbs: an area that was key to his election.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Melissa Lopez, immigration attorney and director of Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services in El Paso, Texas, about the unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the border.

The Boston Globe and Boston University Center for Antiracist Research are launching The Emancipator, a news platform named after a 19th century abolitionist newspaper and dedicated to racial justice.