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In Congress, there continues to be bipartisan opposition to Russia's actions in Ukraine, but there's trouble for the Biden administration's request for new spending to deal with the pandemic.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Maryan Zablotskyy, a member of Ukraine's parliament, about food insecurity in Ukraine and elsewhere as a result of the Russian invasion.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring. With a potential red wave coming in the midterm election, his move to step down now is about politics and the ideological direction of the court.

Science shows the value of boosters against COVID, but many vaccinated people haven't gotten the shot. About 40% of people who are eligible have been boosted, which could be bad if COVID surges again.

Check fraud has spiked in the U.S. as thieves use age-old tricks to swindle Americans out of their money and then sell bogus checks on the darknet, a monitoring group has found.

Taufatofua made headlines as Tonga's bare-chested flag bearer at the last three opening ceremonies. He's missing the 2022 Games to help his country recover from January's deadly tsunami.

From The Muppet Show to The Twilight Zone and a creepy animated version of Alice in Wonderland, author Neil Gaiman shares his film and television favorites for the occasional Morning Edition series Watch This. Gaiman calls the Muppets "one of the comedic glories of the human race."

With masks coming off in schools, day care centers and other places, many parents of young children are getting especially anxious and want to get their kids vaccinated. Pediatric trials continue.

Gas prices have soared just as workers who have been remote for two years return to their commutes. Some are asking for companies to wait until prices come down to bring people back.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Heath, about how the new COVID-19 vaccine, Novavax, plays into global vaccination rates.