Millions of Texans are without water due to the storm. President Biden will speak at the Munich Security Conference. And, Native Americans have had an extremely effective COVID-19 vaccination plan.

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is vaccinating its community at rates faster than the rest of South Dakota. That mirrors a trend in Indian Country which has been hard hit by the coronavirus.

President Biden will try to turn the page on the Trump administration's "America First" ethos in a speech to the Munich Security Conference where he'll try to repair frayed transatlantic ties.

The number of applicants for Supplemental Security Income, a federal program for people in dire financial situations, has plummeted.

People the village of Jezero gathered in a school gym and cheered when the rover landed in a Martian crater named after the Bosnian town.

People in Saranac Lake, NY have been building massive palaces out of ice since 1898. It's a folk art that requires a lot of caution and tolerance for bitter cold.

A new British TV drama looks at the lives of gay men in London at the very start of the AIDS crisis — back when no one wanted to stop the party, and no one thought the virus could touch them.

Christian nationalism has effectively spread so much disinformation that three in five white evangelicals say Biden was not legitimately elected, according to the American Enterprise Institute.

A rocket attack on a U.S. base in Iraq highlights the difficult security situation in the country, even as NATO announces it will increase its presence. We examine what's needed to keep Iraq secure.

Namira Islam Anani and Omar Anani married a few months after their first date in 2019. When Namira fell ill with the coronavirus, a distanced dinner reminded her "how important our relationship was."

The director of Harvard's Healthy Buildings program tells Steve Inskeep that updated CDC guidance on reopening schools during the pandemic may not help to return more kids to the classroom right away.

NASA's six-wheeled rover landed successfully on Mars yesterday. NPR's Joe Palca talks about the descent and landing, and what's next for the mission.

The singer shared a social media message with her fans this week, explaining it wasn't appropriate to erect a statue of her "given all that is going on in the world."

The divide between the two very different GOP leaders is not all that surprising. But it's also a symptom of something that's been brewing since long before Trump.

NPR's Noel King speaks with Austin city council member Natasha Harper-Madison about how the severe weather is affecting Texans.

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley greeted insurrectionists at the Capitol with a raised fist on January 6th. How does his hometown feel about their senator?