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"The gun violence crisis in America is a challenge to the conscience of our country — one that demands that we act," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

House Passes Bills To Strengthen Gun Laws, Including Expanding Background Checks

With Democrats in full control of Congress, lawmakers hope that the legislation will find more support. Efforts to pass tougher gun control laws have repeatedly failed despite recent mass shootings.

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round blue objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes COVID-19.

How Oregon Scientists Found A New COVID-19 Variant — And How We Can Stop It

Scientist have discovered just one case of the unusual COVID-19 variant of concern in Oregon, and don't yet know the implications of it. But it’s part of a global story of viral evolution — and our response to it — that could determine if we eradicate COVID-19 for good, or will it be something, like the flu, we live with, and die from, every year.

A digital collage called "Everydays — The First Five Thousand Days" by the artist Beeple sold for almost $70 million by Christie's in an online auction Thursday.

Beeple JPG File Sells For $69 Million, Setting Crypto Art Record

The artwork, a digital collage called "Everydays — The First Five Thousand Days," signals a new milestone for the increasingly popular market for nonfungible tokens, or NFTs.

A woman clutches a stuffed bear at a temporary warming shelter at the Ashland Public Library Tuesday night.

Spike In Homeless Deaths Alarms Coos County Officials

Homeless service providers and law enforcement have noticed an alarming increase in the number of homeless people who have died in Coos County so far this year. Eight individuals have died since the beginning of 2021 – more than is typical for an entire year.

Magda Sakaan and her father, Walid, shared memories at StoryCorps in 2019 of their time in Syria prior to the war there.

'I Have These Dreams Where I Go Back.' Dad And Daughter Mourn A Syria They Once Knew

Before civil war devastated Syria, Walid Sakaan's home country, his daughter Magda moved there. At StoryCorps, Walid and Magda remember family they haven't visited in years.

<em>Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain,</em> by Shankar Vedantam and Bill Mesler

'Useful Delusions' Examines How Beliefs Can Be Powerful In Positive And Negative Ways

In a new book, former NPR reporter Shankar Vedantam suggests attaining "a deeper psychological understanding of why people believe what they believe," being empathetic and considering costs involved.

'Useful Delusions' Examines How Beliefs Can Be Powerful In Positive And Negative Ways

In a new book, former NPR reporter Shankar Vedantam suggests attaining "a deeper psychological understanding of why people believe what they believe," being empathetic and considering costs involved.

Communicable disease supervisor Jill Johnson draws out doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Deschutes County Public Health Department in Bend, Ore., Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021.

Some Medically-Vulnerable Californians Will Be Vaccine-Eligible Monday, But Barriers Remain

Somewhere between four and six million Californians with certain health conditions will become eligible for a COVID-19 under new state guidelines starting Monday, but physicians say it’ll be a challenge to get the vaccine to everyone.

President Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House Thursday night.

Biden Sets Goal Of July 4th To 'Mark Independence' From Coronavirus

The president's remarks come on the same day he signed a $1.9 trillion relief package, and as more than 500,000 Americans have died from the virus.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s rescue of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion after activists pressured an American company to abandon the project was the target of nationwide protests when the crown corporation that bought the pipeline hosted its annual general meeting in November 2020. This shot was taken at the Victoria protest that day.

Fighting Cascadia's Final Mega-Pipelines To The Last Mile

Indigenous activists spearhead a last-ditch effort to head off a decades-long greenhouse gas boost.

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