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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Imran Ahmed, of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, about disinformation over the COVID-19 vaccines.

Lauren Hodges is a producer for All Things Considered.

Polling revealed immigration has been listed as the top "U.S. problem" for three straight months. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Gallup research analyst Megan Brenan about this polarizing issue.

U.S. officials have announced that a drone strike over the weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, a top Al Qaeda leader and key plotter for the 9/11 attacks.

When thousands of Haitians – like Dachka and Exode – arrived in the unlikely border town of Del Rio, Texas, they hoped they were crossing the finish line of an arduous immigration journey. But when the U.S. started flying some families back to Haiti (including their South American children) migrants were forced to make a critical decision: stay in the U.S. migrant camp and risk expulsion – or return to Mexico.

This week on Petrie Dish we talk with experts about why you feel how you feel, and what happens inside your body when you start to feel overwhelmed.…

TPR Noticias al Día–Lunes, 21 de noviembre de 2022

In two Texas counties along the border with Mexico, 20 to 25 percent of seniors have Alzheimer's or related dementias. Those rates are among the highest in the US and represent a mostly Latino population. But Latinos are underrepresented in Alzheimer's clinical trials. Physician and neurologist Dr. Gladys Maestre is changing that at her NIH-funded Alzheimer's research center in the Rio Grande Valley, the first of its kind in Texas. She's using a "place-based" approach to dementia care, bringing her Latina identity and cultural knowledge to investigate the social, environmental, and biological factors that influence brain health.

This November, San Antonio voters will decide whether to approve the "SA Ready to Work" initiative that would promote workforce development in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, which wiped out more than 60,000 area jobs. On San Antonians' ballots as the City's "Proposition B," it proposes a four-year program to train 40,000 residents for future in-demand jobs to provide stable careers in the post-COVID economy.

Reporting from the San Antonio Express-News brought to light that for at least two years, developers have routinely been allowed to circumvent San Antonio's tree preservation ordinance. More than 200 exceptions were made between July 2018 and July 2019 alone. In response, the city’s Development Services Department has committed to track and share tree preservation variance requests and approvals, fines related to the ordinance that are assessed or waived, and any exception requests from elected officials.