NPR's Leila Fadel talks to traveling nurse Juan Ramirez, who worked in Texas and Arizona during the pandemic and is now an ICU nurse in California at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding.
Medical staff are liaisons to the sick and dying for relatives not allowed at bedsides. The emotional toil at one Montana hospital is a case study of what caregivers are grappling with across the U.S.
For people who are generally OK — healthy, employed — there's pressure to stay grateful. But those feeling so-called smaller losses also need to grieve and "stop pretending" they're not hurting.
Leaders of the nation's federal vaccine effort, called Operation Warp Speed, said the U.S. has deployed around 14 million vaccine doses as of Wednesday with just 2.1 million Americans vaccinated.
In 2018, he confessed to the murder of 93 women over the course of 35 years. At the time of his death, police were still trying to connect him to dozens of murders.
The Louisville Police Department is set to dismiss two more officers involved in the botched drug raid that killed Breonna Taylor. The move comes nine months after she was killed in her apartment.
As coronavirus numbers trend down across some of the U.S., they remain persistently high in Arizona. Hospital capacity is strained and the legislature is fighting over rules for its upcoming session.
The role of state attorneys general has shifted toward national politics in recent years, including Ken Paxton of Texas, a Republican, who aligned himself with Trump through attention-getting suits.
Senate leadership rules out sending standalone $2,000 checks to U.S. workers. Arizona grapples with second highest COVID-19 rate in the nation. And, the Census Bureau will miss year-end deadline.