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Researchers worry another coronavirus will spill over from a bat or some other creature. They're hunting for sources — and finding evidence that a new pandemic could be around the corner.

A reader wants to know about smoking's impact on the vaccine but didn't specify cigarettes, e-cigs ... or marijuana. So we'll discuss all three. Also: A refresher in painkiller/vaccine interaction.

Idaho Republicans have declined to institute safety measures such as a mask mandate or social distancing. The House speaker said he had no regrets about their policies.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, chair of the Committee on Infectious Disease for the American Academy of Pediatrics, about the COVID-19 vaccine trials in children.

Those green highway signs on interstates increasingly have problems. Older signs are almost invisible at night and it's creating issues for drivers and headaches for state transportation managers.

Cabinet-level officials from the U.S. and China met for the first time since Biden took office, amid increasingly acrimonious and fraught relations between the world's two largest economies.

A GOP political operative is being charged with paying a sham candidate to run for Florida State Senate and unseating the incumbent Democrat. Democrats are calling for a new election.

Attorneys, forensic analysts and other financial experts working for Purdue Pharma spent nearly two years looking for evidence of wrongdoing by the Sacklers. Critics want the findings made public.

They were indicted over allegedly conspiring to obstruct Congress' certification of the Electoral College, including in discussions on encrypted messaging apps.

The CDC has updated its guidance for schools, saying it "now recommends that, with universal masking, students should maintain a distance of at least three feet in classroom settings."