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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky has cleared the way for the roll out of vaccines for children five years and under as early as this coming week.

The city experienced the darkest month in its recorded history in December. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with reporter Charles Maynes, who lived through those nearly sunless weeks.

John Rogers of Arkansas spent $1.6 million on what he calls the "holy grail" of baseball cards: a 1909 Honus Wagner in near-mint condition. As for buyer's remorse, Rodgers says a dealer has already offered him $100,000 more than he paid for the card featuring the Pittsburgh shortstop.

All but one of the top 30 picks in this week's Major League Baseball draft stand 6 feet or taller. How do they measure up when compared with baseball legends of decades past? Robert Siegel finds that while the average American is about an inch taller than in 1960, the average baseball player seems to be growing much faster than that.

The lawsuit arrives as U.S. renters continue to struggle. The latest figures show that half of American renters spent more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities in 2022, an all-time high.

The bear was lost along a trail in Glacier National Park. Months later a family friend spotted it in a ranger's truck. The ranger who had found it said he just couldn't bear to throw Teddy away.

How did the attack on the U.S. Capitol come together? What did President Trump know and why did he take so long to respond? And who will be held accountable?

In softcover fiction, Mark Helprin sets a romance against the backdrop of midcentury New York, and Ian Frazier presents the journals of a mother who swears an extremely blue streak. In softcover nonfiction, Yael Kohen collects an oral history of women in comedy, and Jon Ronson gathers some funny stories of his own.

Tech billionaire Michael Dell and his wife Susan have pledged $6.25 billion to fund so-called "Trump Accounts." The investment accounts would be available to children in low-income zip codes.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been looking at the causes of the riot. It's now voting on contempt resolution for Steve Bannon who defied its subpoena.