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"Today is a historic day for the rights of all Mexican women," said Supreme Court Chief Justice Arturo Zaldivar on Tuesday.

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.

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.

When Kabul fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15, the president of Afghanistan fled. It was so fast, the group didn't seem to have a plan to run the country. Tuesday, they announced an interim government.

Tens of millions of Americans are forced to live with wildfire smoke now every year. New research shows that it's more invasive than previously thought, infiltrating homes, schools and offices.

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.

For the first time, a sitting first lady is working a non-White House job. Jill Biden has been teaching for decades. On Tuesday, she headed to her classroom at Northern Virginia Community College.

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.

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 Ailsa Chang speaks with American Academy of Pediatrics President Lee Savio Beers about the mounting pressure to consider emergency use authorization of COVID-19 vaccines for children under 12.