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Blinken tells China it's in their interest to stop helping Russia
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken following his talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and top Chinese officials in Beijing.
We meet a man who photographs the sun
By layering 150,000 individual images, an astrophotographer from Arizona has captured what could be the most intricately detailed photo ever captured of the sun.
The war-torn Iraqi city of Ramadi is enjoying an investment boom
by Ruth Sherlock
After years of war, Ramadi has come back to be one of the safer parts of the country and a magnet for investment. Two new hospitals have been built and two new universities are being developed.
Marking the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor
by Casey Harlow
A small group of the remaining survivors of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor return to Hawaii for remembrances after the pandemic canceled them last year.
Biden-Putin meeting will delve into whether Russia plans to invade Ukraine
President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet by video conference Tuesday. At the top of their agenda is the escalating tension over Ukraine.
News brief: U.S.-Russia meeting, diplomatic boycott of Olympics, DOJ sues Texas
President Biden and Russian President Putin hold a video summit. The U.S. won't send any government officials to the Olympics in Beijing. The DOJ is suing Texas over the state's redistricting plans.
What has South Africa learned about the Omicron variant?
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Arifa Parker, an infectious diseases specialist in South Africa, about the latest coronavirus variant.
New York's mayor announces a vaccine mandate for private companies
by Elizabeth Kim
To counter a COVID-19 surge, New York City will implement what its mayor says will be a "first-in-the-nation" vaccine mandate for all private-sector workers to take effect Dec. 27.
Texas officials order power plant operators to prepare for winter hazards
by Mose Buchele
Nearly a year since the worst blackout in Texas history, the state has ordered power plants to better prepare for winter. But the changes so far won't be enough if there's another record freeze.
How Germany's new foreign policy may differ from Merkel's government
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Rachel Rizzo, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Europe Center, about Germany's new leadership and its pressing foreign policy concerns.
President Biden announces a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics
NPR's Debbie Elliott talks to Mike Mazza of the American Enterprise Institute about whether the U.S. diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing will have a tangible effect.
A snake adds new meaning to the phrase: curling up on the sofa
A man in Clearwater, Fla., pulled back the cushions on his sofa to find a five-foot snake. The sofa was carried outside and a red-tailed boa constrictor was extracted.
Inside London's Natural History Museum is a unique holiday sweater
The museum has an animatronic T. rex. The life-size creature is wearing a holiday sweater, which the manufacturer said took 100 hours to make.