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Hong Kong is supposed to be a semiautonomous enclave of China, "one country, two systems." But China is moving to impose a sweeping national security law on the city, which critics say is illegal.

As COVID-19 spread from China to Europe and then on to North America, two universities in Virginia got news of a grant that would help them plan for and…

As places of worship begin to reopen in the Commonwealth, a Virginia Tech professor says social distancing may not be enough for those wanting to sing…

In response to the violent protests in Minneapolis, the president tweets a phrase that goes back to the 1960s, used by a white police chief known for inflaming racial tensions in Miami.

Growing up in Aledo, Ill., the singer-songwriter longed to live somewhere "more romantic." Then she moved away: "Now, when I go back, I see the beauty in it," she says. Originally broadcast in 2017.

We look at addiction and substance abuse during the coronavirus pandemic and the resources available to those who are suffering.

Scientists are trying to answer various questions about the coronavirus four months after the first confirmed case in the U.S.: why it spreads, who transmits it and where the spread is happening.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, assistant professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University, about the protests around the U.S. sparked by George Floyd's death.

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee called on the nation to better empathize with the pain of black Americans in the wake of the death of the black man by a white police officer.

Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, answers listener questions about immunity, the probability for another pandemic and the latest information on the coronavirus.