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NPR's Gerry Hadden reports on the abortion debate in Mexico. Abortion laws have recently been relaxed in the country, but some powerful religious conservatives are threatening to use their influence in an effort to ban abortions entirely.

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Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan reviews Spike Lee's newest movie, Bamboozled. It stars Damon Wayans as a Harvard educated network television writer who's the only black writer on staff. Pushed to create a hip TV program about urban blacks or be fired, the writer comes up with Mantan, the New Millennium Minstrel Show, a demeaning program that exploits every racial stereotype imaginable. Turan says it's the harshest of Lee's films.

NPR's David Welna reports on reaction to last night's Vice Presidential debate among a political science class at Chicago's Loyola University. The students stayed to talk about what swayed them in this debate, and what bored them.

An influx of COVID-19 patients in Idaho has overwhelmed the state's hospitals.

Construction workers and others opposed to new COVID-19 vaccine rules have taken to the streets. Some allege that right-wing extremists have infiltrated the increasingly violent protests.

It's been called the "Skinny House" or the "Spite House." The legend is that two brothers shared land but one built on more than his share, so the other built a skinny house to block access and views.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced it will push to protect workers against rising temperatures, including a federal rule to safeguard workers from heat-related illnesses.

Carmen Bolden Day says the discovery of an unidentified body on Sept. 4 seems to have brought her son's missing person case to a standstill.

It's the president's first major speech to an international audience since the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.