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NPR's A. Martinez speaks with Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas about the border crisis, and the Biden administration's efforts to curb the flow of migrants.

The NCAA men's basketball tournament gets underway on Thursday. Normally, March Madness is a truly wild tournament. This year, because of COVID-19, it's going to have a very different look.

South Africa has registered over 1.5 million cases of COVID-19 — one of the worst-affected countries in the world. Cases are now down, restrictions have eased and South Africans are looking forward.

The winner of the 2021 Regeneron Science Talent Search is 18-year old Yunseo Choi for playing theoretical "matchmaker" using algorithms. She won $250,000.

People getting vaccinated for COVID-19 are deciding whether to share the good news, as posting a vaccine selfie can lead to unwelcome questions, assumptions and backlash.

A research team at Cornell found that transporting rhinoceroses by dangling them upside down from helicopters was the safest way of doing so for conservation. The position helps open their airways.

The prosecutor said he was motivated by personal circumstances to make the food deliveries during work, but admits it was an "incredibly poor" decision.

Public health experts are getting increasingly concerned that new COVID-19 hot spots may be emerging, especially in Michigan.

Officials are meeting in Anchorage for the first Cabinet-level talks between the two countries since President Biden took office. Secretary of State Blinken laid out concerns with Chinese policy.

The Biden administration plans to loan millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses to Mexico and Canada. But there's pressure for more vaccine diplomacy in the global race against time and variants.