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The pandemic drove U.S. life expectancy down again in 2021 even though life-saving vaccines were widely available.

Lisa Simeone talks with deejay and producer Fatboy Slim about his career and his song and video Weapon of Choice. Fatboy Slim is the pseudonym of Norman Cook, the mix-master who dominated the MTV Video Music Awards this week.

Commentator Askia Muhammad is a Muslim, and an American. And he does not want any part of Osama bin Laden's call to "holy war," nor any part the U.S. military assault in Afghanistan.

New fossil discoveries have confirmed that the ancestors of whales had ankles and walked on land before making their way into the sea. NPR's Joe Palca reports that two separate teams of scientists -- publishing in both Science and Nature this week -- show that whales belong to the same animal group as sheep and hippos.

The investigation, prompted by the discovery of top-secret papers found at Mar-a-Lago, is at an early stage, a source told NPR.

Plummeting world coffee prices have meant the end of jobs for hundreds of thousands of coffee pickers. In Nicaragua the crisis has reached desperate levels. Without work, coffee pickers are homeless and beginning to starve. NPR's Gerry Hadden reports from Nicaragua.

This highly contagious virus first appeared only about two months ago — and already it's killed around 23 million chickens and turkeys.

While the experimental series has a star-studded cast — including Issa Rae and Nicole Kidman — its directors meld the fantastical with the real.

Artist Emily Quinn is intersex. She's one of over 150 million people in the world who don't fit neatly into the categories of male or female. She explains how biological sex exists on a spectrum.

Troops from 27 countries wrapped up one of the largest NATO war games since the 1980s — in the Arctic. Russia's war in Ukraine made the exercise feel like more than a game.