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President Biden's judicial picks have included the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, women of color to federal appeals courts and openly LGBTQ judges to serve on the federal bench.

The United Nations has complained that Nepal's bureaucracy is getting in the way of relief efforts. Government officials in Kathmandu say they aren't receiving enough of the right kind of aid.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Palestinian researcher Yousef Munayyer about Palestinian sentiment six months since the start of Israel's war on Hamas.

The Jan. 6 committee has been uncovering what led up to the insurrection, but lurking beneath the hearings is a sometimes unspoken reason — race and the loss of white power.

When Joan and Izzy Schwartz got married, they spent their wedding night in a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. Back then, the room cost $16.80. For their 60th anniversary, the Waldorf will give the couple a room for the same rate they paid in 1952.

Governor Jared Polis and the state’s top disease expert aren’t yet to know whether the state has seen the worst of its latest wave of coronavirus infections. And Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 schools are moving to 4 day school weeks next year.

The nation’s top authority on drought has released its operating plan for the next five years; Southwest Colorado is experiencing a surge of COVID-19 infections, according to Southwest Health System’s Director of Infection Control, Marc Meyer.

States with the lowest vaccination rates are clustered in the South and the Southwest. But there's one standout, New Mexico, where health officials now say some counties are close to 90% vaccinated.

Guilty or innocent, the drug-corruption trial in New York of high-ranking former Mexican government official, Genaro Garcia Luna, shows the limits of the U.S. to win its decades-long "war on drugs."

The third political appointment at the bureau in less than two months comes amid growing concerns about the Trump administration interfering with the 2020 census to benefit Republicans.