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Florida has imposed a $3.5 million fine on Leon County for requiring employees to be vaccinated. Gov. Ron DeSantis says that violates a law banning vaccine passports, and that more fines are coming.

Earthworks artist Stan Herd has unveiled an enormous portrait of NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson in Woodruff Park in Atlanta. It is etched into the ground.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jane Carter, a labor economist negotiating on behalf of Kaiser union workers, who says the struggle to recruit and retain workers will worsen under the company's plans.

Putting off surgeries or routine treatments for serious illnesses has become common during the pandemic, a new NPR/Harvard poll finds.

How did 15,000 Haitian migrants, over a five-day span, reach the U.S.-Mexico border last month unimpeded? The answer involves, crime, law enforcement and politics.

The long-awaited study finds that people who got the J&J vaccine would benefit more from getting a Pfizer or Moderna vaccine as their booster instead of another J&J shot.

Chicago's female lifeguards had hoped their #MeToo moment had come, after decades of alleged sexual misconduct by supervisors at the city's beaches and pools. But an internal investigation stalled.

White spent his early childhood in poverty in Baltimore, at times sleeping in abandoned houses. He's now principal tubist in the Santa Fe Symphony and the New Mexico Philharmonic.

In the latest installment of NPR's series on finding homes for people who need support and services, NPR's Joe Shapiro reports on the problem elderly residents of so-called assisted living facilities have when they are forced into nursing homes because of their special medical needs and government regulations.

Morning Edition attended Tony Hawk's Boom Boom Huckjam last night in Washington, DC. It's Tony Hawk's latest business venture, a traveling road show with the world's best skateboarders, bikers, and motocross riders performing live choreography and tricks to live music in front of huge indoor crowds. The Huckjam hasn't been a runaway commercial hit...but you'd never know it from how it's produced. (6:13)