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Two consecutive years of escalating gun violence and homicides leave big cities and small towns reeling as they search for ways to regain control of a problem with many causes.

Saturday marked 50 years since President Nixon signed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act into law, a groundbreaking event that changed Alaska history forever.Last week, we played you a five-part series that explored ANCSA’s legacy in different communities around the state. Today, we’re going to play you something a little different. Unalaska’s Native Corporation was formed in 1973, two years after ANCSA was passed.Vince Tutiakoff, Sr. serves as the Ounalashka Corporation’s board chair. And AB Rankin has served on the board since 1986 and is the current Vice President.To finish out our week exploring the 50 years of ANCSA, Tutiakoff and Rankin reflect on the Ounalashka Corporation, and how Unalaska has changed since its inception.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, about the surge of the omicron variant and the Biden administration's plan to combat its spread.

The U.S. is now averaging 125,000 new COVID-19 cases a day. While delta is still surging, the highly transmissible omicron variant likely will become the dominant variant very soon.

Kenyon Wilson at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga wanted to see if his syllabus was being read. He hid a $50 bill on campus and put how to find it in the syllabus. The money went unclaimed.

Many of the 3,800 people were burned at the stake centuries ago. The effort is led by a group called The Witches of Scotland — dedicated to clearing the names of people convicted of witchcraft.

As they count down the hours to the highly anticipated launch of NASA's powerful, $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers hope for the best while fearing the worst.

With the Biden administration loosening the rules of the troubled Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, one borrower, a special education teacher on the verge of retirement, got some good news.

Nevada had not been doing vaccine outreach to rural Latinos until recently. Now, state health officials are ramping up efforts to administer shots and counter misinformation.

NPR's A Martinez asks Michelle Singletary, personal finance columnist for The Washington Post, about what the Federal Reserve's plan to consider raising interest rates means for your wallet.