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Four federal agencies under President Obama requested new sexual orientation and gender identity questions for the American Community Survey. Under President Trump, the proposal stalled.

What makes California great wine country also makes it great for growing marijuana. Santa Barbara County has some of the nation's biggest legal pot farms, which leads to conflicts with other farmers.

Here are your morning headlines for Thursday, August 22: Ohio forms school safety center; U.S. sanctions China fentanyl traffickers; Kasich, Gee to push...

As healthcare workers in the U.S. received COVID-19 vaccines, many were relieved and hopeful. But doctors who are foreign-born also describe a...

A new study in The Lancet Planetary Health finds that cultural attitudes may explain the stark differences in how countries experience the pandemic.

Seven Republicans joined with all Democrats and independents to vote to convict the former president for inciting an insurrection, but the tally is short of the two-thirds vote needed.

Reopening schools is a challenge because states have different rules. NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to Barbara Jenkins, superintendent of public schools in Orange County, Fla., about in-person learning.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest school guidelines are running into complicated facts on the ground, especially when it comes to physical distancing and community spread.

Guidance from the CDC on who should be prioritized to get the COVID-19 vaccine was meant to be flexible and inclusive. But "the attempt to have equity created more inequity," says one researcher.

Trump supporters are the least likely to say they will seek a COVID-19 vaccine when one becomes available to them. Of the hesitancy among Republicans, Dr. Anthony Fauci says, "I just don't get it."