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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Calvin Kasulke about his novel, Several People are Typing, in which a man inadvertently uploads his consciousness into a Slack channel and gets stuck inside the app.

The Morton School District adopted a multi-tier back-to-school plan just before the governor issued his statewide indoor masking mandate for schools amid a rise in childhood COVID-19 cases as the Delta variant proliferates.

Author Eyal Press calls them "jobs of last resort" — slaughtering animals, working in prisons, engaging in remote drone combat. Society needs them but doesn't want to talk about them.

However, there were sharp disagreements between U.S. defense and intelligence agencies on how quickly the Afghan government would struggle without U.S. involvement.

Moammar Gadhafi was a young army officer when he first seized power in a September 1969 coup. On Thursday, Libyan officials announced that he had been captured and killed.

In the Taliban's first press conference in decades, the group promised inclusive government, no retaliation against enemies and no violence against women.

Mask requirements have been extended until Jan. 2022.

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it was recommending a third booster shot for fully vaccinated Americans who received Pfizer or Moderna.

Parents, neighbors, teachers and police officers cheered on students of Franklin Primary School as they entered the building on Wednesday.

Home health aides are experiencing burnout and staff shortages. What does this mean for the future of home care?