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Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former U.S. Army Col. Christopher Kolenda about President Biden's decision to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11 of this year.

Thousands of Central American migrants come to the U.S. illegally each year. They often hire a human smuggler to get them across the border. The story of one woman's journey shows how human smuggling is intertwined with human trafficking.

Changes would allow N95 sales for industries other than health care and signal an end to the hospital practice of reusing the masks considered essential for worker safety.

The U.S. plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions dramatically in the next decade. Scientists say it's crucial that the U.S. succeed. Still, many of the positive effects won't arrive for decades.

Relatives of George Floyd and Daunte Wright called for justice in the two separate cases of Black men killed in police encounters. NPR's Noel King talks to Benjamin Crump, the families' attorney.

The governor declared a state of emergency for Manatee County after officials were alerted to a leak in a wastewater pond.

A year of the pandemic has revealed that faith communities have reacted differently to lockdown requirements. Why have some prioritized religious freedom over public safety?

Poet Franny Choi tells NPR's Michel Martin about some of her favorite listener submitted poems for National Poetry Month.

The figures are preliminary and don't include what Border Patrol agents call "got aways." Officials say it was the highest monthly total since at least 2006.

Not only does the new research show the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are effective at protecting pregnant people, it also found that antibodies were present in umbilical cord blood and breast milk.

People leaned into their faith communities over the past year to help them through the COVID-19 crisis, Sacramento faith leaders say. National polling suggests that experience is widespread.

During last spring's racial justice protests, a young man in Portland, Ore., realized that people wanted to do something beyond march. So, he created the Black Resilience Fund to offer small grants.

Any effort to address what's happening on the border has to start with root causes in Central America, says Cecilia Muñoz, who was head of the Domestic Policy Council in the Obama administration.

Before the U.S. pulled out, the deal gave Iran money and gave the world assurances that Iran wasn't trying to build nuclear weapons.

Monday will be the final day the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine will be available at the FEMA sites in Tampa, Jacksonville, Orlando and Miami.

Additional pumps should double the amount of water that can be taken from of the retention pond. U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan said the problems at the processing plant are "something that's been going on for too long."

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Larry Wilmore about his new Netflix docu-series, Amend: The Fight for America," about the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about their new PBS documentary Hemingway. Actor Jeff Daniels reads from Hemingway's private letters and other writings.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Cecilia Muñoz, who headed President Obama's Domestic Policy Council and worked on President Biden's transition team, about immigration challenges.

Drive down any suburban neighborhood and you'll see them. Homeowners are ditching strings of lights. Instead, projectors send hundreds of red and green lasers dancing across the outside of homes.

After the death of George Floyd, New York mandated that every police department in the state launch a "reform and reinvention" process by April 1. Now, many advocates have become disillusioned.

Highs on Thursday could be up to 25 degrees colder from the I-4 corridor to the north.

Within the Federal Bureau of Prisons, inmates are asked to "voluntarily" agree to electronic monitoring in order to use the bureau's email system. But critics say there's nothing voluntary about it.

Katie Engelhart explores the complexity of physician-assisted death in the book The Inevitable.She says patients seeking to end their own lives sometimes resort to veterinary drugs from overseas.

Biden to unveil a $2 trillion infrastructure plan. Witnesses continue to testify in trial of ex-officer Derek Chauvin charged with murdering George Floyd. COVID-19 cases surge in India and Pakistan.