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Prominent Republicans are threatening to sue over the Biden administration's efforts to use federal power and incentives to mandate vaccines for large employers and healthcare workers.

A smaller dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective for children ages 5 to 11, according to data the company released Monday. The data will now go before the FDA and CDC for review.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author Giulio Boccaletti about his new book Water: A Biography, which takes readers through the complex and surprising history of humanity and water.

The Taliban beat him for being Hazara. He spent his life savings to smuggle his family to Turkey — climbing over its border wall — to find a community of Afghans that helps each other get settled.

In Macedonia, a conflict resolution group Search for Common Ground has produced a television program aimed at teaching children about their counterparts from other ethnic groups. They say that according to a study they've just completed, the show is helping to change some children's negative and stereotyped attitudes. The program is called Nashe Maalo which means Our Neighborhood. Host Jacki Lyden spoke with Eran Fraenkel, executive director of Search for Common Ground in Macedonia.

Reporter Alex van Oss reports on a theater production in Arlington, Virginia that shines the spotlight on one of Dostoyevsky's lesser known qualities, his sense of humor. The play is called Someone Else's Wife and the Husband Under the Bed and is brought to life under the guidance of Russian director Yuri Kordonsky.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports from Sydney that five members of Romania's weightlifting team were reinstated at the Summer Olympics after a bizarre day of confusion over policy concerning drug tests. The athletes who did not fail any drug test were kicked out of the Olympics because two of their teammates tested positive.

NPR's Alex Chadwick examines Australia's national character in the latest National Geographic Radio Expedition. Australia is roughly the same size as America, but there are only 19 million Australians, still in search of their national identity.

Commentator Darrell West, who teaches political science at Brown University, says this could be one of the most exciting and important elections in four decades. But voters are not paying attention to what could be a very exciting race.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports from Chicago that civil rights activists vow to keep using fake job applicants to ferret out discrimination in hiring. They're promising to persist despite losing a federal court case concerning the undercover tactic.