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In Malawi, one of the world's poorest countries, counselors guide girls as they face tough choices during the coronavirus crisis — from giving up on their education to opting for early marriage.

Two of the updated COVID-19 vaccines have arrived at pharmacies all over the country. On Friday, the FDA authorized the Novavax shot, which is also expected to be available in the coming days.

U.S. marines have arrived in the Middle East. NPR's Emily Feng has been monitoring the latest developments from the border of Iran and Turkey.

A report from the International Monetary Fund warns "the global economy is threatened with being thrown off course." European Union Commissioner Marta Kos discusses this grim economic outlook.

Billy Crystal, Dionne Warwick, Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, Renée Fleming and Queen Latifah were given the star treatment as they received their Kennedy Center Honors.

In search of funds to preserve and commemorate the Miraflores Burial Ground, the city of Pensacola recently submitted application for a grant through the Florida Division of Historical Resources Abandoned African American Cemeteries Grants program. During the review process, discussion of ideas for how to honor the site will continue.

In his new book, journalist Roger Thurow chronicles the obstacles that women around the globe face in raising healthy babies.

In his more than 15 years with Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! Carl has put up with endless travel, silly jokes and countless assaults on his dignity.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to two unidentified young Afghan women who fear for their safety under Taliban rule. One is protesting the Taliban, the other is trying to escape.

"If the Democrats can do it, the Republicans can do it," Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told NPR's Nina Totenberg.

Films that focus on disability are frequently overlooked by festivals and audiences. Reelabilities, a 15-city festival, is bucking the trend, showcasing films by and about people with disabilities.

Microsoft's first priority in its unsolicited bid for Yahoo is to compete with Google for advertising revenue that comes from online searches. But the merger would bring a lot of other goodies, too.

Ken Auletta's new book, Googled, chronicles the behemoth search engine company from the bottom up. But critic Troy Patterson says that few of the book's points are so penetrating that they couldn't be easily discovered via a quick Google query.

The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez takes readers on a journey through Colombia starting in the late '60s — but it's not your average detective story. Reviewer Rosecrans Baldwin says the real mysteries in the book are in the minds of the characters.

Writer Hisham Matar, who was nominated for the Booker Prize for his book, In The Country of Men, speaks with Renee Montagne about writing and fiction in an unstable Libya.

Cunningham piloted the first manned Apollo mission, a key step in the drive to reach the moon, but he never flew in space again. He was a physicist who later became known as a climate-change skeptic.

Before the Yamuna enters Delhi, the river looks relatively clean. This is in stark contrast with what it looks like as soon as it enters the city. Most citizens don't care, but one man is taking up the cause.

NPR's summer road trip series continues with a tribute to two influential Washington, D.C., figures from the early 1900s. A 12-foot fountain in the nation's capital honors the friends, who took an ill-fated trip in 1912 aboard a brand-new ocean liner called the Titantic. Emily Friedman reports.

Some of science's great ideas were created in homespun ways. To test his ideas on evolution, Charles Darwin and his butler dropped asparagus into a tub. Darwin's oldest son studied dead pigeons by letting them float upside down in a bowl.

She's among the last living beboppers, one of the first singers on Blue Note and a pioneer of voice and bass. The legendary Sheila Jordan joins Christian McBride for a career-spanning conversation.

Ellen Jovin set up a table in New York City where anyone can stop by and ask a question about grammar. "They just walk up, and they'll say, 'Is there an apostrophe in this word?' " she says.

British playwright and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter has died. He was 78. Pinter was known for his brooding portrayals of domestic life and his barbed politics.

In 2015, the trailblazing feminist told Fresh Air she that had entered a new phase in life, one in which "you can do what you want." Steinem died Sept. 2 at the age of 92.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with two climate activists of different generations — Jasmine Butler and Denis Hayes — about their outlook on the planet's future amid new climate change reports.

Insiders are blaming Democrats' midterm losses in part on a White House failure to communicate effectively, says Richard Wolffe, author of Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House. That failure can be traced to two rival camps fighting to shape the presidency, Wolffe says.