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The nation's poison control centers saw a 245% jump in reported exposure cases from July to August as more people take the anti-parasite drug that some falsely claim treats COVID-19.

At least 49 people are confirmed dead, and in some areas, the search for the missing continues. Residents digging out from the wreckage are asking whether the region is prepared for the next storm.

The secretary of transportation and his husband, Chasten, announced last month they had become parents. On Saturday, Buttigieg tweeted a picture of the couple with their two new children.

In a tearful post-match news conference, the tennis superstar says the sport no longer makes her happy. "I honestly don't know when I'm going to play my next tennis match," she says.

The star defender, who was born in Senegal and played for major clubs in France as well as the French national squad, fell into a coma during a botched operation in 1982. He died on Monday at age 73.

David's exit is contentious, with both sides accusing the other of falsehoods. Last month, the New York attorney general's report said David shared confidential files with Cuomo's administration.

Parents across the country are weighing whether to send their children to in-person school this fall. Some districts are getting creative in an effort to win them back.

Families of 9/11 victims may get some answers this week about what the U.S. government knows about the attack. Some believe secrets documents could point the finger at Saudi government officials.

In a unanimous decision, Mexico's supreme court has struck down a state law that criminalized abortion. Advocates say the historic ruling opens the door for legal abortions nation-wide.

Maryland is famous for its crab cakes. But the cost of crab and a shortage of the crustacean has Baltimore chef John Shields doing something radical.

While the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is well-documented, pockets of Jewish resistance surfaced in smaller ghettos across Nazi-occupied central-eastern Europe too. Zhetel is one such place.

Over the course of the pandemic many of us have taken up (and often dropped...) new hobbies to past the time. But Brigitte Xie has taken it to a whole new level.

For the first time, a sitting first lady is working a non-White House job. Jill Biden has been teaching for decades. On Tuesday, she headed to her classroom at Northern Virginia Community College.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with American Academy of Pediatrics President Lee Savio Beers about the mounting pressure to consider emergency use authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for children under 12.

When Kabul fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15, the president of Afghanistan fled. It was so fast, the group didn't seem to have a plan to run the country. Tuesday, they announced an interim government.

President Biden met with people in New Jersey and Queens who were affected by Hurricane Ida, a disaster he is using to make the case for his infrastructure plans.

Writer and cartoonist Jonny Sun's new book is a collection of essays, reflections and illustrations that consider everything from Tetris to succulent plants to dealing with loneliness.

There has been a fivefold increase in the number of documented weather-related disasters in the last 50 years, driven in large part by climate change, a U.N. agency says.

Organizers of evacuation flights are pressing the state department to do more to help them get hundreds of people out of Afghanistan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pushing back.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Hilma Wolitzer about her collection of short stories, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket, which illuminates the complexity of motherhood and marriage.