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During his year-end news conference, the Russian president glibly brushed aside international suspicions that Kremlin agents were behind the attempted assassination of the leading opposition figure.

The CEO of the U.S. anti-doping agency called the decision a "weak, watered-down outcome." Russian teams are banned, but its athletes may compete — albeit without the country's flag and anthem.

A new study suggests big sisters have a powerful impact. (Sorry, big brothers, you don't make as much of a difference.) But there are also potential downsides for the sisters.

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted 20-0 to recommend that the agency authorize Moderna's vaccine for emergency use during the pandemic. There was a single abstention.

French President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for the coronavirus and will quarantine for a week, his official residence announced.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips and GOP Rep. Dusty Johnson, members of the bipartisan group Problem Solvers Caucus, about the latest on COVID-19 relief talks.

Data show a surge in virus transmission in some areas. Doctors, local health departments and others in the community talk about what they are seeing, and what are they are worried about.

The president-elect defends Hunter Biden, whose tax affairs are under federal investigation. He appeared with his wife, Jill Biden, who touched on a controversial op-ed on her use of the title "Dr."

The successful completion of the Chang'e-5 mission makes China only the third country to have returned soil and rock samples from the surface of the moon.

Science writer Robin Marantz Henig has written about dangerous emerging pathogens for 30 years. But none of what she learned could shed light on her own confusing encounter with this virus.