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New CDC guidance puts most of the U.S. at low risk of COVID-19. But what does that actually mean? Experts says the CDC metrics aren't necessarily the best way to gauge your individual risk.

Most multinational companies have cut ties with Russia. An era of economic openness that started when McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Moscow in 1990, is coming to a close.

A White House official said Biden's comments did not reflect a policy shift, even though the U.S. traditionally has avoided making such an explicit security guarantee to Taiwan.

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The vaccine couldn't have come at a more critical time, with a surge in cases and deaths from malaria during the pandemic. But its efficacy — and its schedule — are far from ideal.

Nina Totenberg reports on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's failure to disqualify himself from a mutual fund case in which he had a possible conflict of interest.

The jury in Zacarias Moussaoui's sentencing trial decides that he is eligible for the death penalty. Moussaoui was defiant in the face of the ruling, yelling out in court, "You will never get my blood." In the next phase of the proceedings, the jury will hear more testimony and decide whether Moussaoui should receive the death penalty or life in prison.

Andrew McBride, a former U.S. attorney in the eastern district of Virginia, talks with Robert Siegel about the sentencing phase of federal death-penalty trials, and what jurors in the Zacarias Moussaoui case might consider as they deliberate his punishment for conspiring with al-Qaida.

NASA engineers are struggling to get to the bottom of a mysterious technical problem that scrubbed Wednesday's planned launch of the space shuttle Discovery. Astronauts were already on board when word came that the launch was a no go. They now need to wait at least days if not weeks for another chance.

Mykolaiv sits near the edge of Russian-occupied areas of the country. We visit on the eve of an expected new Russian offensive in the area.