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NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on the opening of the basement of Ernest Hemingway's ranch outside of Havana, Cuba, where researchers are for the first time able to pore over thousands of the author's letters, photographs and drafts. The artifacts have been left undisturbed in the basement since Hemingway left Cuba in 1960.

NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from Santiago that a Chilean court has blocked an indictment of former dictator Agosto Pinochet on murder and kidnapping charges. Attorney's pressing the case against the 85-year-old general are appealing the decision to the Supreme Court which will hear the case in the coming weeks.

In Mexico's southern Chiapas mountains, men, women and children work in primitive conditions to mine amber from the rock. Working by candlelight deep in the mountainsides with none of the security features found in modern mines, these Mexicans pry the honey-colored fossil from the hill. NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from Simojovel , Mexico.

(03/17/22 @ 1 p.m.) An encore interview - WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with James Reston Jr., Author of The Accidental Victim: JFK, Lee Harvey Oswald and The Real Target in Dallas.

More than 30 states have reported a rises in cases of the coronavirus subvariant.

Anyone who returns to work has to wear a face covering, the agency says, but it may not have enough for every employee. The House Ways and Means Committee called the move "completely irresponsible."

The Grassi Lakes stand about 5,000 feet above the town of Canmore in the Canadian Rockies. Though the region is a popular recreation area for tourists from all over the world, indigenous peoples have lived there for centuries.

When Clemson University professor Chenjerai Kumanyika attended the funeral this weekend, he found himself discussing gentrification — and his own role in the changes in North Charleston, S.C.

They're made of cotton. Or polyester. Or paper. Or polypropylene. Here's what researchers say about the effectiveness of the different types of face masks during this pandemic.

Indoor mask mandates are being re-instituted for municipal buildings amid a COVID spike fueled by the Delta variant. Starting Monday, anyone who enters an…