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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.

Politicization of the pandemic has created stigma or silence around COVID-19 deaths in some communities, leading to "disenfranchised grief," as the death is tinged with a supposed "moral" failure.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly checks in with Filipe Ribeiro, the Afghanistan representative for Doctors Without Borders, to find out how the organization is doing right now.

NPR'S Ailsa Chang speaks with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy about the devastation Hurricane Ida brought and what state and federal governments are doing to provide assistance to those affected.

El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, kicking off a big and bold experiment for the popular cryptocurrency.

For the millions of Americans dealing with wildfire smoke this summer, the message is to stay inside and shut windows. But new research shows smoke is making indoor air hazardous, too.

School is scheduled to begin Monday, but with hundreds of schools damaged or destroyed Haitian officials are considering a postponement.

FX's limited series Impeachment: American Crime Story refocuses the story — once largely controlled by male journalists, politicians, comedians and activists — on Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp.

Joy Banner's family took shelter in a house on a plantation their ancestors helped build. "They were not able to have this kind of house for their own protection when a hurricane hit them," she says.

For almost two decades, the U.S. tried but failed to stop the opium trade in Afghanistan, a source of income for the Taliban. NPR's Michel Martin learns more from the CATO Institute's Jeffrey Miron.

The delta variant is pummeling America's hospitals, taxing an already-depleted health care workforce. Once again, some states are facing the prospect of rationing medical care.

Hiring slowed sharply last month, as a surge in coronavirus cases poured cold water on the economic recovery. The slowdown comes as millions of people are about to lose pandemic unemployment benefits.

Sheriff deputies in Polk County said they encountered a massive gunfight Sunday with a suspect in full body armor. Authorities said the suspect, who is now hospitalized, was "ready for battle."

Democrats have renewed calls for Supreme Court reform in the wake of the Texas abortion decision. NPR's Michel Martin speaks to law professor Stephen Feldman.

With lighter winds and cooler temperatures, firefighting conditions are improving, but the work of containing the Caldor Fire is still backbreaking.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Sara Colangelo, director of the new Netflix film Worth, which tells the story of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with economist Howard Kunreuther, co-director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Process Center, about climate change's impact on the insurance industry.

A look at the possible awards contenders and blockbusters that Hollywood has in store for autumn.

Members of Guinea's military arrested the country's president Sunday. Col. Mamady Doumbouya, the coup's leader, said he was dissolving the country's constitution and government.