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A laboratory on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on May 13, 2020. Focus has turned back to the facility as a possible origin of the coronavirus pandemic.

Why A Lab In Wuhan Is Worth A Closer Look As A Possible Source Of The Pandemic

With the focus shifting again to a Wuhan, China, lab, Dr. Céline Gounder, a COVID-19 adviser to the Biden transition team, says it's important to find the pandemic's origins to prevent the next one.

A laboratory building at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, is seen on May 13, 2020.

Biden Asks U.S. Intel To Push For Stronger Conclusions On The Coronavirus' Origins

The U.S. intelligence community is investigating the potential origins of the coronavirus, including the possibility that it emerged as a result of a lab accident in Wuhan, China.

President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic during a prime-time address from the East Room of the White House, Thursday, March 11, 2021, in Washington.

Biden Asks US Intel Officials To Investigate COVID-19 Origin

President Joe Biden is asking U.S. intelligence agencies to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Derrick Young, co-owner of Mahogany Books in Washington, D.C., says his store has seen new customers in the last year who seem to be "willing to do the work" to educate themselves on issues of race in America.

A Moment Or A Movement? Black Bookstore Owners On Business One Year Later

After last summer's surge in anti-racist book sales, NPR spoke to three Black bookstore owners across the country to ask if customers are still engaged with their businesses and anti-racist reading.

An iPhone displays a Facebook page in New Orleans. Facebook, Twitter, and Google are being asked by the European Commission to share more details about what their platforms are doing to curb disinformation.

Europe Wants Social Media Giants To Do More To Stop Disinformation

The executive branch of the European Union is asking Facebook, Google, Twitter and others to provide details on how they are responding to disinformation on their platforms.

U.S. Navy Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Eden Betzler, from Princeton, Minn., greets her significant other on a pier onboard Naval Air Station North Island upon the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt’s return from deployment, May 25, 2021.

USS Theodore Roosevelt Returns To San Diego From Six-Month Deployment

The Nimitz-class carrier left San Diego last December for the second deployment its crew embarked upon in 2020, which took the ship about 48,000 nautical miles to the U.S. 3rd Fleet and 7th Fleet areas of operation and back.

A man holds a Black Lives Matter flag during a March protest in St. Paul, Minn. Support for Black Lives Matter surged after protests following George Floyd's death. Activists charge that disparaging posts targeting BLM are part of an overall effort to undermine the movement and its message.

Black Lives Matter Fights Disinformation To Keep The Movement Strong

Calls for racial justice and an end to police brutality still fill social media platforms a year after George Floyd's murder. But Black Lives Matter says posts targeting it are full of disinformation.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks with reporters after voting on the establishment of a commission to investigate the events of January 6 on May 19, 2021 in Washington, DC.

Kevin McCarthy Leads House GOP In Blasting Marjorie Taylor Greene's Holocaust Remarks

The freshman Republican has repeatedly equated COVID-19 safety measures with the treatment of Jews under the Nazis. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy rejected that rhetoric, but she doubled down.

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks last month at the Department of Justice.

DOJ Moves To Block Full Memo On Trump Obstruction Decision From Release

The Justice Department's response is an early test of how it will handle questionable activity by previous leaders in the department — and former President Donald Trump.

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Department of Justice on April 26.

DOJ Moves To Block Full Memo On Trump Obstruction Decision From Release

The Justice Department's response is an early test of how it will handle questionable activity by previous leaders in the department — and former President Donald Trump.

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