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NPR's A Martínez checks back in with Mahbooba Seraj, founder of the Afghan Women's Network, about the mood in Afghanistan as the last of the U.S. troops left the country.

There's long been opposition to the practice of forcing a woman on her period to menstrual exile in a hut, which can be unsafe and unsanitary. One charity has a new interim response: upgrade the huts.

Some Afghans are welcoming their new rulers, while many others remember the excesses of the harsh ideology the Taliban enforced when they last seized power in the 1990s.

NPR's Noel King speaks with former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann about the Taliban's rapid territorial gains and the Biden administration's decision to evacuate the embassy in Kabul.

The conflict, which began last year, in the Ethiopian province of Tigray is spreading into other parts of Africa's second-most populous country.

Natalie McCray was 11 when her school went all-remote in March 2020. Now, at 13, she's returning to the classroom for the first time since the pandemic began.

The average American adult spends four or five hours a day on their phone. Is there a line where that much phone time crosses into addiction? The Indicator from Planet Money asked an economist.

NPR's Noel King speaks with filmmaker Manjari Makijany about Spin, Disney's first movie featuring an Indian American lead.

The Taliban are edging closer to the Afghan capital of Kabul. NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with Afghan reporter Bilal Sarwary about the situation on the ground.

"Many people had coronavirus," says asylum seeker Raudel, adding there's little social distancing or mask wearing, and sick and healthy people are mixed. ICE denies this but cases doubled since June.