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Host Michel Martin speaks with Elizabeth Hume, acting president and CEO at the Alliance for Peacebuilding, about doing humanitarian work in Afghanistan under the Taliban.

Democrats have renewed calls for Supreme Court reform in the wake of the Texas abortion decision. NPR's Michel Martin speaks to law professor Stephen Feldman.

With lighter winds and cooler temperatures, firefighting conditions are improving, but the work of containing the Caldor Fire is still backbreaking.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Harvard epidemiologist Bill Hanage about the delta surge and vaccination levels, as students return to in-person schooling and millions travel for the holiday weekend.

Talos Energy, the Houston-based company paying for the cleanup, said it's working with state and federal agencies to identify the owner of the ruptured pipeline, about 2 miles off the Louisiana coast.

Schools in Oakland, Calif., regularly report lower reading levels for Black and Latino students. A parent advocacy group has been demanding the district do better.

Arizona has become the first state to get rid of peremptory strikes in jury selection. Peremptory strikes have drawn criticism for their use by some attorneys to exclude people of color from juries.

Power is expected to be restored in more parts of Louisiana this week, but residents throughout the state are still struggling in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, especially those along the coast.

The Taliban say they've taken control of the last holdout of anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan. Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, the view from Pakistan. It's Labor Day, but many are jobless.

The Taliban released a list of interim ministers of a new acting government at a press conference in Kabul. The list included many who are under U.N. and/or U.S. sanctions.