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The 10 winners of this year's Whiting Awards have been announced; the $50,000 prize honors emerging writers, with the hope of allowing them to concentrate full-time on their work.

The International Energy Agency plans to release 120 million of barrels of oil from their emergency reserves, including 60 million from a previously announced U.S. drawdown.

El Salvador's president has responded to gang violence with a sweeping campaign of arrests that raise questions about whether he's violating human rights.

The vaccines now in use are based on the form of the virus that circulated at the beginning of the pandemic and are less effective against the omicron variant. New options are in the works.

The University of Kansas just won the NCAA men's basketball championship, but the results of an investigation into recruiting violations may spoil the party.

Bassist Ben Williams is a rising jazz star. He won the 2009 Thelonious Monk Competition and received a recording contract for his debut album, State of Art, which was released this summer. Williams brought his band Sound Effect to perform two songs from that album at the NPR Music offices.

With support for unions at its highest point since 1965, Democrats hope they can capitalize on that sentiment as they struggle to connect with voters on other issues.

The labor union argues that nurses and other licensed healthcare professionals working at the hospital have been understaffed throughout the pandemic.

Mark Vande Hei, a NASA astronaut who returned to Earth on March 30, said the yellow and blue colors were from the university the Russian cosmonauts attended.

Some progress was reported during weekend talks in Vienna between Iran's top nuclear negotiator and the EU's foreign-policy chief. Iran has reportedly offered to temporarily suspend nuclear-enrichment activities.