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World News

Australians head to the polls Saturday in election overshadowed by Trump

7:01am May 02, 2025

by Kristina Kukolja

Australia heads to the polls on Saturday in an election overshadowed by President Trump. Will concerns over Trump's policies drive an outcome similar to what happened in Canada's elections?

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Biden balances vaccinating Americans and donating vaccines globally

The U.S. delivered the 200 millionth dose of COVID-19 vaccines worldwide, part of a 1.1 billion dose pledge. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to the State Department's Gayle Smith, who is leading the effort.

News brief: Sudan coup reports, COVID vaccines for kids, Charlottesville rally

Sudan's prime minister is detained in an apparent coup. FDA advisers review vaccine data for children ages 5 to 11. Some organizers of the deadly rally in Charlottesville, Va., are going on trial.

A Los Angeles home featured in Wes Craven's 1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street is for sale for $3.5 million.

The house from the movie 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' is up for sale

by Tien Le

A major gathering of anti-vaccine activists will take place this weekend at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. While the hotel, seen here, encourages guests to wear masks, they are not mandatory.

While COVID still rages, anti-vaccine activists will gather for a big conference

by Paige Pfleger

Randy Bachman holds a Gretsch guitar that is similar to the one stolen in 1976. He plans to swap this one for his original with TAKESHI, a Japanese musician who bought Bachman's beloved instrument in 2016.

Music & Culture

Rocker Randy Bachman's guitar was stolen 45 years ago. A fan tracked it down

Nitin Bajaj surveys the damaged empty kitchen earlier this month. The stove the tenants took with them has been replaced, but there is still much work to be done.

They didn't pay rent and stole the fridge. Pandemic spawns nightmare tenants

by Chris Arnold

A coal-hauling truck with 240 tons of coal drives to the surface at the Buckskin Coal Mine in Gillette, Wyo., in 2004.

U.S. coal production is up sharply after hitting a 50-year low last year

by Kayla Desroches

Health & Safety

Boosters will extend and enhance protections against COVID, Murthy says

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy about COVID-19 vaccine boosters, the mixing and matching of vaccines and the White House plan to vaccinate children.

Health & Safety

Just when more nurses are needed, it's more difficult to get into nursing school

Hospitals are in dire need of nurses. There's often 800 people applying to community college nursing programs offering 50 slots. One main reason is that there aren't enough people to teach nursing.

Health & Safety

The head of the VA says the U.S. failed some veterans for 30 years

NPR's Steve Inskeep and Quil Lawrence speak to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough about how the agency is caring for veterans.

National

Alec Baldwin fires prop gun on movie set killing a film crew member

Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on the set of Rust near Sante Fe, killing the film's director of photography and injuring the director, according to the sheriff's office of Santa Fe County, N.M.

Health & Safety

The CDC endorses the rollouts of vaccine boosters from Moderna and J&J

The centers for Disease Control and Prevention issues recommendations for how to mix-and-match COVID-19 boosters — marking the final step for making boosters widely available.