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In Boston's Haitian communities, where vaccination rates lag, health workers and community leaders are trying to dispel misinformation and encourage residents to get the shot.

An Islamic State affiliate says it was behind the attacks that killed at least 13 U.S. service members and dozens of Afghans. Here's what we know right now.

The U.S. Forest Service this week closed Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area along the Canadian border because of fires. It's the first time in nearly half a century they've had to close the area.

The life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is as colorful and heart-wrenching as her paintings. A movie about her, Frida, opens nationwide this week.

Lincoln started out as a nightclub singer, but began performing in a style influenced by the civil rights movement after she met drummer/bebop pioneer Max Roach. Originally broadcast in 1986 and 1987.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas in Austin, about the law that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Could it mean the end to Roe v. Wade?

U.S. veterans reflect on their time in Afghanistan as they watch the Taliban take power, uncertain of the fate of the people they know from their time at war.

Many Afghans who worked with the American military are desperately trying to flee. One of them is Mohammed, a colonel in the Afghan army who's now in hiding with a group of more than a dozen families.

Many of this year's mystery and suspense novels explore literary appropriation — characters in positions of privilege laying their sticky mitts on stories that don't belong to them.

The leaders of two federal health agencies are telling White House COVID-19 advisers that there is not enough data right now to make a blanket recommendation on boosters.