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Even in tornado-prone areas, storm shelters aren't required in warehouses

In the U.S., tornadoes cause more annual fatalities than hurricanes and earthquakes combined. Yet there isn't a national standard mandating that large warehouses include storm shelters for workers.

Gas prices are seen at a gas station in Vernon Hills, Ill., on June 11, 2021. Crude prices continued to gain on Thursday even after the U.S. and 30 other countries announced a coordinated release of oil from their reserves.

The U.S. and 30 other nations are releasing oil from reserves to try to calm markets

Oil-consuming nations will bring 60 million barrels of crude out of storage and onto global markets. It's supposed to calm oil prices down, but global crude went up on the news.

President Biden to deliver his 1st State of the Union address

President Biden delivers the State of the Union address Tuesday. He will talk about how inflation is hampering the country's economic progress, the status of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds will give the official Republican response to President Biden's State of the Union address.

Iowa Gov. Reynolds will likely tout her COVID response in State of the Union rebuttal

Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds' response to the pandemic, with few restrictions, has gotten her national attention.

The latest on the attacks in Ukraine

Russian forces appear to be escalating attacks on urban areas of Ukraine as 680,000 people have fled their homes. Sanctions are piling up, and the West is supplying more military hardware to Ukraine.

Owner of beloved Dayton, Ohio, restaurant died of COVID-19

Throughout the pandemic, we've been remembering the lives of some of the nearly 1 million people who have died in the U.S. from COVID. Aaron Kim was a father, a husband and a restaurateur from Ohio.

Immunocompromised Americans feel left behind by the loosening of COVID safety rules

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Cass Condray, Johnnie Jae and Charis Hill about being immunocompromised as states across the country loosen COVID safety precautions.

Foreign policy expert argues Russia won't stop until it has conquered Ukraine

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Angela Stent, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about what could be guiding Putin's decision-making in Ukraine.

Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers was censured Tuesday by her colleagues in a bipartisan vote.

Arizona State Senate censures lawmaker who threatened rivals with violence

State Sen. Wendy Rogers, a Republican, spoke at a conference organized by a far-right group and later used antisemitic tropes to describe Ukraine's leader.

For the 1st time, 2 women are seated behind the president during a State of the Union

Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat behind Biden during his joint address to Congress last year, but that speech was not an official State of the Union address.

Visitors are seen at Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., last year.

Yellowstone turns 150. Here's a peek into the national park's history

Yellowstone became the first national park in the U.S. on March 1, 1872, and it helped usher in the broader national park movement. The park stretches into Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.

In this undated photo provided by the Portuguese Navy on Feb. 18, 2022, smoke billows from the burning Felicity Ace car transport ship as seen from the Portuguese Navy vessel NPR Setubal southeast of the mid-Atlantic Portuguese Azores Islands. The large cargo vessel carrying cars from Germany to the United States sank in the mid-Atlantic 13 days after a fire broke out on board.

Ship carrying thousands of luxury cars sinks in the Atlantic after burning for weeks

The total estimated loss for the cargo, including Porsches, Bentleys, Lamborghinis and Volkswagens, aboard the Felicity Ace is close to $440 million.

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