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Japan had purchased doses to vaccinate 72 million people, but without the appropriate syringes, it will fall 12 million people short.

While many have chosen to not get a COVID-19 vaccine, there are a few among us who desperately want to be vaccinated, but can’t due to medical issues.

Most of Beverly Pickering's dog walking and pet sitting business relies on people traveling. People aren't doing that much these days.

"This gap between rhetoric and action needs to close if we are to have a fighting chance" of reaching emissions goals, the head of the International Energy Agency says.

Poet Kwame Alexander has created a poem from submissions about the challenges of the past year and our dreams for the future. It ends with: "For through the struggle, we may hope to become stronger."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Oceanside on Monday. Her remarks touched on everything from campaign finance reform to climate change and the ongoing impeachment inquiry. While Americans were loosing their homes during the housing bust, a group of businessmen were making billions of dollars. Investigative reporter Aaron Glantz joins Midday Edition to talk about his new book, “Homewreckers.” Plus, how housing the homeless can help California curb rising health care costs. And, veterans cemeteries are running out of burial space so the VA is offering an alternative. Also, California’s teen birth rate hit a record low, but in some rural communities the rates remain very high. Finally, actor Stephen Merchant navigates the tricky and risky comic terrain in the new film “Jojo Rabbit.”

Smoke from these fires, which have burned millions of acres in California alone, is choking vast swaths of the country, an analysis of federal satellite imagery by NPR’s California Newsroom and Stanford University’s Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab found.

With limited resources themselves, states are having to get creative helping residents deal with the COVID-19 economic slowdown. But how much help you can get depends on where you live.

Michael Gene Sullivan's 'The Great Khan' closes series on Monday

As much as $273 million in federal coronavirus aid was awarded to more than 100 companies that are owned or operated by major donors to President Donald Trump's election efforts, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data.