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Travelers wearing face masks with their luggage head to the immigration counter at the departure hall at Lok Ma Chau station following the reopening of crossing border with mainland China, in Hong Kong, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023.

China has reopened its borders to tourists after three years of COVID-19 closure

The ability of residents Hong Kong to cross into mainland is one of the most visible signs of China's easing of border restrictions, with travelers arriving no longer required to undergo quarantines.

A flyer seeking information about the killings of four University of Idaho students who were found dead is displayed Nov. 30 on a table along with buttons and bracelets during a vigil in memory of the victims in Moscow, Idaho.

What we know about the University of Idaho stabbings

Authorities arrested a suspect, 28-year-old Bryan Christopher Kohberger, on Friday.

Idaho removed nearly 10,000 people from Medicaid in the pandemic's first years when enrollees couldn't be reached. The episode previews what could occur in other states after April 1, when a COVID-era coverage mandate ends.

Idaho dropped thousands from Medicaid early in the pandemic. Which state's next?

The federal agency that oversees Medicaid suggested Idaho wasn't trying hard enough to reach beneficiaries before letting their coverage lapse. Consumer advocates fear that could happen again.

Paulo Echeverry and Dahianara Lopez Zapata, at their food truck in Kissimmee, Fla.

Some homebuyers lose deposits of $10,000, $20,000, or more due to high mortgage rates

There's a high-stakes tug of war over new homes. Many people who signed contracts before houses were built now are scared to buy them. Builders don't want them to back out and are keeping deposits.

Rescuers scour the crash site and wreckage of a passenger plane in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, Jan.16, 2023. Nepal began a national day of mourning Monday a day after the plane crashed while attempting to land.

Flight data, voice recorders retrieved from Nepal crash site

A spokesman for Nepal's Civil Aviation Authority says a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder have been retrieved from the site of the crash that killed at least 68.

What President Biden and Republicans are saying about funding Medicare

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kaiser Health News correspondent Julie Rovner about the politics of Medicare ahead of debt ceiling talks in Washington.

A man fills cans with water in order to bring water to homes in Xochimilco, Mexico.

Billions of people lack access to clean drinking water, U.N. report finds

A new U.N. water report warns the world is headed toward a global water crisis if human-caused climate change and population growth aren't addressed.

Former president Donald Trump, pictured here at the Conservative Political Action Conference in August, was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday.

5 key takeaways from the Trump indictment news

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a New York grand jury. Trump's arraignment hearing is scheduled to take place on Tuesday afternoon in a Manhattan criminal court.

Plows, at right, try to pass crawling traffic in the snow on Route 93 South in Londonderry, N.H., Tuesday. The storm is expected to continue into early Wednesday.

Storms cause havoc on U.S. coasts as nor'easter bears down on New England

Large outages are reported in New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Massachusetts. The storm is dropping massive amounts of snow less than a week before the first day of spring.

Jason Musgrove, 50, on Monday, flew from Houston to Maui to try to find his mother. She has been unaccounted for since Aug. 8, the day the fires in the town of Lahaina began.

Cell phone photos and some metadata. A son's search for his mother in Maui

Jason Musgrove has been in agony for more than a week. He's had no contact from his 69-year-old mother, who has mobility issues. She was last seen escorted out of her apartment building on Aug. 8.

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