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A new $163 million school grant program, created with federal COVID-19 relief funds, is open to schools that are adhering to "all state laws," referring to a recent order

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Anthony Fauci, NIAID director and the president's chief medical adviser, about the CDC's new mask guidance and potential vaccine mandates.

As fears of coronavirus spread, so does price gouging for masks, which are in limited supply.

(04/21/22 @ 1 p.m.) An encore interview today. WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Joshua Rubenstein, Author of Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says he has questions about Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to reinstate a pre-pandemic ban on people wearing masks in public.

(Airs 03/10/22 @ 1p.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Mariana Figueiro Director of the Light and Health Research Center/Icahn School of Medicine.

Temporary, strong emotions, when we're already feeling down, can significantly reduce our ability to perceive the fat in our food, researchers say. It's the latest finding to show how strong emotions can confuse our sense of taste.

Meriam Ibrahim, 27, says she was raised an Orthodox Christian after being born to a Muslim father. A court ordered her release Monday, throwing out a death sentence.

Just a day after a band of armed gangsters robbed a bank in Criciúma, another in the city of Cametá was targeted. The cities are separated by 2,000 miles.

The unforgiving plains of Australia in the 1820s are the backdrop for this novel, which spans a night of conversation between two Irish-born immigrants: a condemned highwayman and the officer who will oversee his hanging. Alan Cheuse has this review. (STATIONS: The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf is published by Pantheon.)