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As the Taliban take over Afghanistan, women bureaucrats are risking their lives and freedom to not only save their country and people — but to maintain the rights of women and girls.

New state laws make it harder for interfaith couples to marry. The idea is to halt forced marital religious conversions. But they've emboldened extremists to interrupt weddings.

Sights & Sounds is your weekly guide to the Bay Area arts scene. Filmmaker and visual artist Sephora Woldu told KALW’s Jeneé Darden about three cool arts…

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, about commitments to addressing climate change in light of the COP26 Conference.

What to know as markets dropped, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 700 points to its worst fall since October.

Heavy snowfall and frigid temperatures across the U.S. have kept winter storm warnings in effect from Washington to the Great Lakes into northern New England and a large section of the South.

A digital art project strives to uncover the “Hidden Histories” of San Jose’s Japantown neighborhood. Despite the name, the area was what former resident Robert Ragsac calls a “rainbow neighborhood,” home to flourishing Filipino, Chinese, and Japanese immigrant communities.

El Paso, Texas, is remembering the 23 people killed during a mass shooting at a Walmart on this day in 2019. The alleged gunman said online that he wanted to stop the "Hispanic invasion" of the state.

Utility company Entergy failed to provide power for a million people after Hurricane Ida ripped through New Orleans. A new NPR-ProPublica joint investigation examines why.

Just hours after the Sept. 11 attacks, President George W. Bush said, "The resolve of our great nation is being tested." So here we are 20 years later. Have we passed the test?

Exxon Mobil has condemned the comments of one of its lobbyists who was secretly recorded by undercover climate activists. He discussed urging lawmakers to weaken President Biden's infrastructure bill.

What if your doctor prescribed you a walk in the park instead of a pill? Doctors in San Mateo County are giving patients a prescription to spend time outdoors. The Park Rx program is getting patients back to health, by getting them back to nature.