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Even as the European Union began vaccine rollouts on Sunday, nations around the globe are instituting severe lockdowns and travel restrictions. Fear of the U.K. variant is a key reason.

Cupcake stores are popping up across the county. One expert says it's a classic economic bubble — with a sweet topping. Producer Selena Simmons Duffin talks cupcakes with host Guy Raz.

New business applications are on track to top 5 million, smashing the record set in 2020. Behind some of them are new entrepreneurs who have decided this is the moment to chase their dreams.

After nearly two years of living in sweats in the shadow of a pandemic, people — and fashion designers and brands — are ready to step out and catch the light.

Some of the songs being played during the Black Lives Matter protests in the U.S. aren't overtly political. Instead, they're rap songs by local heroes — songs celebrating being Black.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld again dismisses talk that his time is short as the top civilian at the Pentagon. The Washington rumor mill has put Rumsfeld's job on the line in the past -- and been wrong. Renee Montagne talks to John Hendren about Rumsfeld's status, and the status of the initiatives he brought with him to the Pentagon five years ago.

Top lawmakers in Albany said on Monday that they would examine areas where the state’s gun laws could be strengthened following the weekend’s mass shooting in Buffalo that killed 10 people, and injured three others, at a local grocery store.

The City of Buffalo, still mourning and grieving weeks after a supermarket mass shooting, is marking National Gun Violence Awareness Day by pressing state and federal governments to pass meaningful reforms, and by encouraging the public to pressure their representatives, and even do their part to change some of the culture that has encouraged gun violence to continue.

A house located on C Street in Washington, D.C., is home to many powerful conservative members of Congress who share both an ideology and an address. Jeff Sharlet details the house's mission in C Street:The Fundamental Threat to American Democracy.

The leaders of China and Russia join other world leaders for meetings at the Eurasian summit — dealing with security and trade. Top of the agenda: regional security and Russia's war in Ukraine.