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The Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan. What does it mean for the Afghan people? In the 90s, when last they ruled, it was a brutal, utterly ruthless regime that terrorized its people.

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.

Public health figures believe a focus on boosters for the already vaccinated will hasten the emergence of new variants among the billions of unvaccinated people — including a vaccine-resistant strain.

The soccer stadium in the Haitian seaside town of Les Cayes is now a tent city of people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by the earthquake. Aid continues to arrive, but slowly.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with New Orleans Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson about the summer spike in violence and how the city has changed their policing efforts under a Justice Department order.

Walla Walla, Wash., has among the highest per capita COVID-19 rates in the U.S. But the county's public health director says it's not his job to reach unvaccinated people in his community.

Until now, historians could only guess the age of Machu Picchu based on documents from the Spanish conquest. Researchers now have evidence of human habitation dating decades earlier to at least 1420.

Florida's Board of Education is taking action against school districts that defy the governor's order banning face mask mandates for students. Miami-Dade County will vote on masks on Wednesday.

Haitians are struggling to recover from the earthquake and tropical storm. Officials say more than 1,900 people have died after the weekend quake, and the death toll is expected to rise.

Prime Minister Ariel Henry took office after the assassination of the country's president, and almost immediately faced the challenge of responding to a devastating earthquake.