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With a win over the Utah Jazz, San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich surpassed Don Nelson for most regular-season wins in NBA history.

Athens activist and educator Mokah-Jasmine Johnson is once again taking on Rep. Houston Gaines.

NPR's Ari Shapiro and Tim Mak look at humanitarian efforts in Poland and Ukraine, which involve major international organizations and small grass-roots groups to bring supplies into Ukraine.

"By doing this, you continue to chip away at the respect of the institutions that the next generation is going to need if they're going to have civil society," Thomas says at Utah event.

In the field of bio-tech, it can take 10 years and millions of dollars to see if an experimental idea might turn into a life-saving treatment—if it ever does. Noubar Afeyan fully understood those risks when he co-founded Moderna in 2010. He and his colleagues were looking for a way to deploy the messenger RNA molecule to tackle life-threatening diseases. In January of 2020, an urgent opportunity presented itself in the form of a deadly virus that was spreading across the globe. At a breathtaking pace, Moderna produced a prototype for a COVID-19 vaccine, partnered with the NIH to test it, and produced millions of doses, becoming part of the most rapid vaccine roll-out in human history. While Moderna is the best known of Noubar's companies, he has launched many others in the bio-tech space as part of Flagship Pioneering, his multi-billion dollar venture studio.

Russia's top prosecutor called for Facebook and Instagram's parent company to be labeled an extremist group after Meta said it would permit some calls for violence against "Russian invaders."

On its 50th Anniversary, The Godfather is one of the most influential and respected films in Hollywood history. But that outcome didn't seem likely at its premiere.

The UN now says more than 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine, most of them to Poland. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports on the busiest and one of the most quiet border crossings in Poland.

As wide-ranging sanctions cripple Russia's economy, many international investors have determined the country is no longer a place where they can invest their money.

Two studies still out for review show the latest evidence for COVID spillover from humans into white-tailed deer. The strains in the animals had been circulating for months, picking up mutations.