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Annual inflation climbed to a new four-decade high in February, with consumer prices up 7.9% from a year ago. The increase does not reflect most of the recent jump in gasoline prices.

Looking for child care for disabled children is a challenge for working parents.

Scientists may not know for a couple weeks yet how risky the new coronavirus variant will be to public health. But getting out front now about what is known helps dispel misinformation, they say.

The Biden administration is trying to figure out how much student debt to forgive and how to go about doing it — through executive action or legislation.

The assistant director was fired from a previous job after a gun went off on a set and wounded a member of the film crew, a producer for the film told the Associated Press.

The Pulitzer Prize winner, whose music enveloped everything from the horrors of the Vietnam War to the calls of humpback whales, died Sunday.

Among the staffers named: Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond will lead Biden's Office of Public Engagement, and Jen O'Malley Dillon, his campaign manager, will become deputy chief of staff.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution about rising income inequality amid the longest period of economic expansion in U.S. history.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with CapRadio's Nicole Nixon about the final stretch before the California gubernatorial recall election.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Program (WFP), about hunger in Afghanistan.