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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is planning to ban menthol cigarettes, a move the National Medical Association has urged for years. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with the NMA's Dr. Doris Browne.

Protesters are taking to the streets of Colombia demonstrating against the government's mishandling of the pandemic, and its proposal to raise taxes at a time of deep economic pain.

LGBTQ social media users encounter hate speech and harassment at higher rates than all other identity groups at 64%, according to GLAAD's inaugural social media index report.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is pushing ahead with a massive canal project through Istanbul — even though banks are afraid to fund it, and many think it is unnecessary.

The Loveland police officers were involved in the forceful arrest and detention of Karen Garner, a 73-year-old woman with dementia. The announcement came after a federal civil rights suit was filed.

Doctors were surprised to find nine babies; scans had shown only seven. "The newborns (five girls and four boys) and the mother are all doing well," Mali's health minister says.

South Carolina's Harrison raised huge sums of money in his unsuccessful attempt to unseat Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.

President Biden laid out his approach to the pandemic before he took office. On Thursday, he began implementing it, calling the effort a "wartime undertaking."

Here’s a rundown of immigration and other news from the Texas border and beyond.

ERCOT doesn’t have the power to mandate major changes. That’s the job of the Public Utility Commission (PUC), which oversees ERCOT and regulates the grid, as well as the Railroad Commission, which regulates the natural gas sector. The Texas legislature oversees all of the organizations, and its efforts to mandate weatherization have stalled.