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Health officials recommend adding vaccines for flu and rotavirus to the regimen of childhood immunizations. Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants and young children. Parents are objecting to the number of advised shots.

Japan is assessing the damage from a powerful earthquake that struck the country's northeast Wednesday, killing at least four people. The magnitude 7.4 quake hit at 11:36 p.m. local time.

Russian troops appear to be at the entrance of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and are engaged in active combat. Footage shows what looks like a fire in one of its administrative buildings.

Why should Americans care about Ukraine? An answer from 1960s Broadway.

As NPR marks 50 years, we're looking back at an event that changed the celebrity fundraiser: The Concert for Bangladesh, which took place on Aug. 1, 1971.

If the celebrated cellist could soundtrack his life, the music would be J.S. Bach's six Cello Suites. Yo-Yo Ma explains why they mean the world to him while he played the music at the NPR offices.

Morning Edition and Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan gives his take on the new Superman movie, Superman Returns. Turan likes the action, but he says the characters and plot are not made of steel.

The Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court in Boston that had overturned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence. The 2013 attack killed three people.

Employees are pressuring Disney to take a stronger stand against legislation that limits instruction on homosexuality and transgender issues. Florida's governor says he'll sign the bill soon.

Fifty years ago, a toxic mix of dense fog and sooty black coal smoke descended on London, essentially suffocating thousands to death.