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NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Rutgers University Assistant Professor Peter Hepburn about why only 11% of the money Congress allocated for emergency assistance for renters has been distributed.

Police say rape cases are tough because a victim's memory is often spotty. The ways trauma affects the brain is helping police in rape and sexual assault cases.

NPR's Noel King talks to Simon Ticehurst of Oxfam about that charitable group and others being expelled from Nicaragua, in a worsening crackdown months ahead of a presidential election.

An expectant Afghan mother went into labor aboard a military flight to Germany. Upon landing at Ramstein Air Base, medical personnel rushed aboard the C-17 and helped the mother deliver a baby girl.

Judge Robert Drain signaled he will approve the landmark bankruptcy for Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin. But he called for new limits to legal protections for members of the Sackler family.

When Ben Jackson couldn't get to his beloved aunt's funeral, he wanted to offer a unique tribute — and he knew what to ewes.

The U.S. retail industry is setting records: workers quitting and workers hired. Wages are finally growing. And despite the pandemic devastation, brand-new stores are still opening.

"It is too cruel to ask if it hurts more the first or second time a homeland is lost," says Afghan American author Nadia Hashimi, whose parents are from Kabul. "I know one never becomes numb to it."

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Jane Ferguson, PBS NewsHour special correspondent who is on the ground Qatar, about the U.S. and its allies rushing to evacuate eligible people from Afghanistan.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Mary Ellen McGroarty, director at the World Food Programme in Afghanistan, about the challenges of providing assistance for vulnerable groups in Afghans.