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Hiring slowed sharply last month, as a surge in coronavirus cases poured cold water on the economic recovery. The slowdown comes as millions of people are about to lose pandemic unemployment benefits.

Some residents of the northeast United States are assessing the damage from the remnants of Hurricane Ida, while officials look ahead to the region's readiness for powerful storms in the future.

Amid another season of extreme weather, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with anthropologist Gretchen Bakke about the vulnerability of our infrastructure and how humans adapt to climate change.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Councilman Craig Rice and student Julia Angel about public schools in Montgomery County, Md., opening without police officers for the first time in 19 years.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Marty McNair, whose son died in 2018 from heat exhaustion, about the risks of playing sports in extreme heat — and what can be done to make student athletes safer.

Broadway is coming roaring back on Sept. 2 and one of the musicals to open that day is Hadestown. We follow the cast and crew as they remount the show and celebrate opening night.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Ivory Toldson, the NAACP's director of education innovation and research, about why some Black and Latinx parents are hesitant to send their kids back to school.

Cartoonist Sam Nakahira details the history of how K-pop became a global phenomenon.

In northern Idaho, COVID-19 cases are so bad, all care is being rationed. The Taliban announced a caretaker government in Afghanistan. Mexico's supreme court effectively decriminalized abortion there.

A researcher recently found a decades-old recording of an Australian musk duck named Ripper. Carel Ten Cate says the duck is saying what sounds like, "You bloody fool."