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The Taliban government's new higher education minister said Islamic dress is compulsory. Their last time in power, girls and women were denied an education and were excluded from public life.

Medvedev ended Novak Djokovic's quest for the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men's tennis since 1969.

The agreement came days before Iran was likely to be censured for failing to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development disproportionately sells homes in flood-prone areas, NPR finds. Housing experts warn that this can lead to big losses for vulnerable families.

NPR's A Martínez talks to CEO Geoff Freeman of Consumer Brands Association about federal rules requiring some businesses to have employees submit to weekly COVID-19 tests if they aren't vaccinated.

As the delta variant causes more vaccinated people to get "breakthrough infections," concerns are rising that even the vaccinated could develop long COVID symptoms in rare cases.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Zeke Emanuel about President Biden's new call for vaccine mandates and why he thinks those mandates are needed at this point in the pandemic.

Leaf through the most recent Arizona budget and you'll find everything from a mask mandate ban to voting restrictions. A new lawsuit say those aren't budget items, they are political horse trading.

Fans gasped as the cat fell, then cheered when it survived. "If the cat can help our red-zone offense, I'll see if we can get it a scholarship," Miami's coach said afterward.

According to FBI data, the number of reported hate crimes rose in 2020. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Taylor Dumpson of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights about her experience being targeted.