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Decoy, dog of Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, delivered a ceremonial first pitch before a game at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 28, 2024 in Los Angeles.

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend viewing and gaming

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the shows Mrs. Davis and Disaster Autopsy and the card game Cockroach Poker.

Range fires blackened hundreds of thousands of acres in eastern Oregon in a matter of hours in July.

These Oregon ranchers say the losses from summer range fires will be huge

More than a million acres of rangeland have burned in Oregon this summer. At times the wildfires barely made headlines, but ranchers say the economic fallout will be huge.

A new round of COVID-19 vaccines will be rolled out soon.

The new COVID shot is now available. Here's what you need to know

Two of the updated COVID-19 vaccines have arrived at pharmacies all over the country. On Friday, the FDA authorized the Novavax shot, which is also expected to be available in the coming days.

A magnification of the head of a midge larva. Midges — biting flies — and mosquitoes are spreading the Oropouche virus in Latin America, which is reporting higher numbers in 2024.

Oropouche virus 101: A guide to a little-known virus that's raising concern this year

The virus has been confined to certain areas of the Amazon but is moving into new turf as climate change enables the insects that spread it to spread out. Here's what we know.

A Health Care Worker seals a coronavirus swab after testing at the Pro Health Urgent Care coronavirus testing site on April 30, 2020 in Wantagh, New York.

COVID is on the rise this summer. Here's why and what else you should know

There is a worldwide COVID-19 wave this summer, and a new vaccine coming in September.

The author James Baldwin would have turned 100 on Aug, 2.

On the centennial of his birth, James Baldwin remains relevant today

Baldwin is heralded for being everything from an orator, activist and fashion icon. None of that would be true if he weren't a writer first. We asked fans to break down what made his writing work.

Bird flu continues to spread among dairy cattle. And new research shows there may be more cases among farm workers than health officials have confirmed to date.

Bird flu cases among farm workers may be going undetected, a study suggests

Dairy workers in Texas show signs of prior, uncounted bird flu infections in a new study. Without better surveillance, researchers warn that health officials could be caught off guard if the virus gets more contagious.

Blindsided by 'The Most': This is a superb novel of a marriage at its breakpoint

The story takes place in Newark, over the course of a single day in 1957, which we experience from the two spouses' alternating points of view. Jessica Anthony's novel deserves to become a classic.

A nurse takes care of a dengue fever patient at the Sergio Bernales National Hospital in the outskirts of Lima on April 17. The number of suspected cases in Peru so far this year is over 100,000.

Dengue fever is — unfortunately — having a banner year. Can it be quelled?

Case counts are skyrocketing in countries like Brazil and Peru and the virus is popping up in new turf, from Florida to Iran. What's the cause? And what's the solution?

Abortion rights and other health care issues were part of Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign stump speech in Fayetteville, N.C., on Thursday — three days before Biden dropped out of the race.

Harris, who is Biden's voice on abortion rights, is likely to raise the volume

As a candidate, Kamala Harris likely would take an aggressive stance in support of abortion access — hitting former President Donald Trump on an issue where Republicans have been vulnerable.

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