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Leaders from tech giants like Google and PayPal say that the password as we know it is dead. So what's the future of authentication online? Apple is implementing fingerprint protection on iPhones, but questions linger about the security and feasibility of biometrics.

Newly released revisions to a well-respected COVID-19 model translates into good news for the United States. The number of Americans expected to die from the coronavirus has been lowered.

Alabama singer and songwriter Jason Isbell will have to be content with just six Grammy awards. The Shoals area music star lost in all three categories in which his first solo acoustic album “Foxes in the Snow” was nominated. Isbell was under consideration, “Best Americana Performance,” “Best Americana Song,” and “Best Folk Album.” Ironically, the singer who “learned the ropes” in the music industry in the Muscle Shoals lost one award to another artist who recorded music in that region of Alabama.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Secretary of State Antony Blinken about talks in Beijing meant to ease tensions between China and the U.S.

Public health and law enforcement agencies around the U.S. are scrambling to blunt the impact of xylazine, a deadly new threat to Americans who use street drugs.

At a recent firearms training session in southern California, a small group of Asian Americans had mixed reactions to acquiring a gun.

Ilia Malinin of the U.S. was heavily favored for men's figure skating gold, but a series of falls and downgraded jumps landed him in eighth place.

At the U.S. Curling Olympic Trials, a team of Gen Z curlers usurped the long-reigning champions in a big upset. Team Casper is bringing swagger, limber knees and some new sensibilities to a tradition-filled sport.

Once a racer for Norway, Pinheiro Braathen switched to Brazil, his mother's home country. In winning the Olympic giant slalom on Saturday, he earned South America's first medal at a Winter Games.

Kroger and Albertsons say the merger of the supermarkets could help with grocery prices. And, what is EEE? A fatal mosquito-borne disease that was detected in Massachusetts.