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Residents at John Knox Village in Pompano Beach, Fla., were among the first older adults to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Resident Peggy Golden tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly she's "just thrilled."

Could early access to the vaccine be a form of reparations for historical injustice?

Avril Haines, the first woman nominated to the top intelligence post, took a strange path to this job. She studied judo in Japan, physics in college, and rebuilt a plane that she later crash-landed.

Four hundred thousand years ago, a monster eruption shook the central Cascades. Today, most of the evidence of it is gone — unless you know where to look.

A famous rum factory in Caracas organizes rugby tournaments for impoverished young men. The factory started the program years ago as an effort to get gang members off the streets.

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David Attenborough's Netflix series offers a strange waltz between wonder and melancholy. The show thrills us with the marvels of nature, and then saddens us that we are rapidly wiping them out.

Farhad Manjoo, an opinion columnist for the New York Times, talks with NPR's Aarti Shahani about the upcoming Uber IPO.

People in Florida have been preparing for Hurricane Irma. Some have evacuated, while others are taking shelter. And some are even trying to go on with their vacations.

Most in the terrorist cell were employed or in school and showed no signs of radicalization. Their skill at avoiding detection sends chills down the spines of authorities working to prevent attacks.