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In rural America, hospitals are at or nearing capacity as coronavirus infections are rising at an alarming rate in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states.

The Trump administration put up hundreds of miles of 18- to 30-foot bollard walls on the U.S.-Mexico border. Many migrants are simply climbing over them, suffering serious injuries as a result.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dale Minami, lawyer and former Asian American studies professor at U.C. Berkeley, about the history of anti-Asian sentiment in the United States.

Farmworker advocates are accusing the U.S. Department of Agriculture of trying to cut the wages of farmworkers who come to the U.S. on temporary guest worker visas.

A group of homeless veterans has been living in tents outside the gates of the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus. Now, the VA is allowing them to camp on the grounds of the facility.

With the pandemic continuing, is it OK to go trick-or-treating on Halloween? Some people are finding creative solutions in hopes of a safe and spooky night.

Brazil is experiencing an even more dire COVID-19 with more people now dying there every day than in the United States. Hospitals and funeral services have become overwhelmed as cases climb.

The U.S. promised to pull all troops out of Afghanistan by May 1 when it signed a deal with the Taliban last year. Now, it looks like it will miss that deadline as peace talks crawl along.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Shaharzad Akbar, chairperson for the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, about recent attacks in Kabul.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Marc Elias, a voting rights attorney with Perkins Cole, about the bills proposed by Republican state legislators to restrict how and when to vote in their states.

In Elizabeth City, N.C., the family of Andrew Brown Jr. gained access to more bodycam footage of when deputies fatally shot him while serving a warrant. Before today, they'd only seen one short clip.

The White House has urged Israelis and Palestinians to de-escalate their conflict but it has started out with a tentative Mideast policy and not even an ambassador to Israel yet.

Children as young as 12 can now get Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, but it may be hard to convince some parents to let them. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly and pediatrician Dr. Sally Goza discuss this hesitancy.

A coronavirus variant is spreading quickly in India, causing a massive surge in cases. Scientists are rushing to see if vaccines will be effective against this variant. So far, the news is hopeful.

The civil war in Ethiopia — which is going into its seventh month — has led to an astonishing level of human suffering, with sexual violence being used as weapon of war.