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President Trump demands changes to pandemic relief bill, and he pardoned 15 people and commuted sentences of five others. France reopens border with Britain after new COVID-19 strain is detected.

Could smoke carry disease-causing microorganisms? "It's a very new idea to think of smoke as having a living component," says Leda Kobziar, co-author of an article that explores this theory.

President Trump took to social media to complain about the pandemic relief bill. NPR's Noel King talks to Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware about his critique, and what could happen next.

The drugmakers will add an additional 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to the number that they are already supplying the government. They expect to deliver all the doses by July 31.

His parents traveled 15 hours by bus to bring him to a clinic to save his life. He weighed 6 pounds. And he could be one of the fortunate ones.

Thirty-six people stationed at the General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme Antarctic base had tested positive for the virus, Chilean officials said this week.

"You have a group of 650 people whose wealth has gone up a trillion dollars since mid-March," says Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies. He recommends taxing a portion of those gains.

In 2020, NPR created and published more than a dozen comics for the pandemic — everything from how to explain it to kids to how to help the older people in your life.

President Trump has vetoed the annual defense bill, which has won congressional approval 60 years straight. Now, Congress will move to override that veto.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the Problem Solvers Caucus co-chairs, Reps. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., about President Trump's demand to increase the stimulus checks.