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Just days before the start of the new school year, some Wisconsin parents are scrambling to switch schools in search of mask mandates or mask-optional policies.

ECMO, the highest level of mechanical life support, functions as a temporary heart and lungs for some of COVID-19's sickest patients. But the waitlist is too long for many patients who need it.

The Taliban say they have taken control of the last pocket of resistance in Afghanistan. For the latest, NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Susannah George of the Washington Post who is in Kabul.

The dramatic developments Sunday bore all the hallmarks of a West African coup d'etat. After seizing the airwaves, a group of mutinous soldiers vowed to restore democracy to Guinea.

Zak Khogyani fled Afghanistan with his parents when he was 9. When the Pentagon called on commercial airlines to support evacuation efforts, he asked to be a part of the mission.

Americans and others are still trying to get out of Afghanistan, after the U.S. withdrawal and Taliban takeover. At the same time, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is involved in crisis talks.

Said Noor was 11 in 2001, growing up in an Afghan village. He later served as a U.S. Army interpreter, moved to Texas and became a U.S. citizen. Then he had to help rescue his family from the Taliban.

Anger is growing in Louisiana over the number of vulnerable people dying from the heat in Hurricane Ida's aftermath. Residents want to know why cities and nonprofits weren't better prepared to help.

Belmondo's breakout role was in the New Wave classic Breathless and it won him international fame. French President Macron mourned the passing of a man he called "a national treasure" on Twitter.

More containment on the fire near Lake Tahoe means that some residents have been able to return, but a rash of new "suspicious" fires erupted over Labor Day weekend, officials say.