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The Senate approved a $1.9 trillion rescue package on March 6. The House is expected to vote on the legislation this week.

Here's What's In The American Rescue Plan

The colossal package allocates money for COVID-19 vaccines, small businesses and anti-poverty programs like the child tax credit. Here are the highlights of the bill President Biden signed Thursday.

A health care worker at a drive-through site in Greenville, Miss., administers a COVID-19 vaccine shot in January. Mississippi was one of the first states to add a body mass index of 30 or more (a rough gauge of obesity) to its current list of qualifying medical conditions for vaccine eligibility.

High Obesity Rates In Southern States Magnify COVID-19's Threat

In the U.S. South — home to nine of the nation's 12 heaviest states — obesity is playing a role not only in COVID-19 outcomes but in the calculus of the vaccination rollout.

Before there were masks, there were elbow bumps. Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., and Dr. Anthony Fauci greet each other before a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on March 11, 2020.

March 11, 2020: The Day Everything Changed

The WHO declared a pandemic. The NBA shut down its season. President Trump banned travel from Europe. Tom Hanks tested positive. On one day a year ago, the coronavirus became very real in America.

JPR Live Session: Anna Tivel

Anna Tivel has spent some quality hours in a Dodge Caravan repeating lyrical lines over and over until the words fall in time with the windshield wipers.…

A press badge for <em>Des Moines Register</em> reporter Andrea Sahouri features the jail booking photo from her May 31 arrest while covering a Black Lives Matter protest.

Iowa Reporter Found Not Guilty By Jury After Arrest At Black Lives Matter Protest

Des Moines Register reporter Andrea Sahouri was arrested by police as she was covering a Black Lives Matter protest. She was charged with failing to disperse and interfering with official acts.

A 2020 file photo of an envelope containing a 2020 census letter. The COVID-19 pandemic and lawsuits around the every-ten-years population count is delaying the release of census results this year, creating challenges for Oregon lawmakers.

Oregon Lawmakers Try To Rescue Redistricting Authority With Supreme Court Petition

The suit filed on Wednesday names Secretary of State Shemia Fagan as a defendant. Fagan says there are no hard feelings.

Gov. Gavin Newsom delivers the State of the State address at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on March 9, 2021.

Newsom Blasts ‘Naysayers And Dooms-Dayers’ As He Touts Pandemic Progress

In his State of the State speech, Gov. Newsom declares that pandemic is nearly over and reaches out to key recall voters.

Compass Radio: Tony's Story Of Paranoid Schizophrenia

If you break a leg or come down with a disease that confines you to bed, people generally know what to do. But that's physical illness. Mental illness…

Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic antibiotics were frequently prescribed to seriously ill patients, even though the disease is caused by a virus.

Antibiotic Use Ran High In Early Days Of COVID-19, Despite Viral Cause

Many doctors have used antibiotics to treat COVID-19 patients, but that's largely unnecessary — and could even promote drug-resistant germs.

Books Hold The Key To 'The Postscript Murders'

The woman who turns up dead at the start of Elly Griffiths' new novel billed herself as a "murder consultant" for writers. Griffiths says she was inspired by her aunt, who enjoys thinking up murders.

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