Yosemite National Park reopens Thursday after nearly three months of closure due to the coronavirus. Local businesses are beginning to reopen as well, and many visitors are eager to return.

Jacob Frey acknowledges a need to shift a culture that has "failed black and brown people" for years. But he says calling for the dismantling of police without an alternative in place is "not a plan."

The U.S. Senate's education committee grappled with the challenges public schools face as they prepare to reopen safely in the fall.

Will the continent see a disastrous wave of cases? Or will it be spared the brunt of the pandemic? Different researchers have different theories.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser tells All Things Considered that she's not considering cutting police funding in the city. Bowser has proposed an increase in police funding in the city's budget.

In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry speaks with Dean Blumberg, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of pediatric infectious disease at UC Davis Children’s Hospital.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has defended himself from criticism on both sides following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis: from protesters and activists who say the mayor has defended LAPD officers, despite their aggressive tactics on peaceful demonstrators; and from the LAPD union, which said the mayor has not defended or supported them enough.

Amid the national conversation about community policing and police reform, the discussion over the role police unions play in facilitating the kinds of macro-level reforms being discussed has resurfaced and now finds itself a central part of the discussion.

Almost three decades ago, four police officers were acquitted of brutalizing Rodney King, a black man whose nearly fifteen-minute beating was captured on camera and broadcast nationwide.

To speed vaccine production from years to months, companies must start making a vaccine in large quantities even before it's clear a vaccine works.