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In a dramatic move reminiscent of the first days of the coronavirus in China some 19 months ago, flights and trains in and out of the city of 11 million have been halted.

After reducing or eliminating COVID restrictions as more people became vaccinated, many European countries are being forced to reverse course, as infections increase across the continent.

The move follows an unprecedented spike in positivity rates in the Capitol and mirrors record-high infection rates throughout Washington D.C., driven by the highly contagious omicron variant.

Trolls World Tour in April will be Comcast NBCUniversal's first film available at home on the same day as its global release. The company said some films in theaters will begin streaming Friday.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Each year, students at Dartmouth Medical School honor the people who donated their bodies to science for use as cadavers... and learn more about the lives those donors led. Susan Keese of Vermont Public Radio attended this year's ceremony.

Walter Arvinger is a free man after 36 years behind bars. The Baltimore man, arrested for murder in 1968, was recently granted clemency and released with the help of a University of Maryland professor and some of his law students. NPR's Robert Siegel examines the case.

In a videoconference with U.S. troops in Tikrit, President Bush renews his vow to stay in Iraq as long as it takes for democracy take root there. The White House also continued its defense of Harriet Miers as the president's choice to serve on the Supreme Court.

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope show the most distant reaches of the universe in the most stunning detail ever captured.

Henry Alford recommends one of the least "ooey-wooey books about religion or philosophy" he's ever read: the Tao Te Ching, a collection of aphorisms that dates back two millennia and invites constant reinterpretation.