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After the Trump administration slashed billions in state and local public health funding from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this year, the eventual impact on states split sharply along political lines.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Rawan Hamadeh of Project HOPE about the medical needs in hospitals in Les Cayes, Haiti, after the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the country last Saturday.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Dr. Sachita Shah, an emergency room physician in Seattle, Wash., about the latest surge in coronavirus cases.

Those who have made up their minds, both Democrats and Republicans, take advantage of early voting. Paul Gronke, a Political Science professor at Reed College, talks to David Greene about who votes early, and how early voting has changed the way people go to the polls. Gronke is Director of the Early Voting Information Center.

With over 100 large wildfires burning, mostly on the West Coast, firefighting resources are so exhausted that the U.S. and Canadian militaries are being called in to attack the fires from the air.

In response to a lawsuit, the Pentagon releases its first-ever public listing of detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison. The documents list 558 people. Only a handful of the prisoners have ever faced formal charges. Renee Montagne talks with Scott Silliman about the list. He is the executive director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke University.

British authorities have yet to authenticate claims that the London attacks were committed by a group calling itself "The Secret Organization of Al Qaeda in Europe." But it is broadly believed that al Qaeda is connected to the bombings. Magnus Ranstorp discusses the structure of the terrorist network today. He directs the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrews University in Scotland.

The Supreme Court has revived the Trump administration's ban on transgender military personnel, for now. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Shannon Minter of with the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

Floods, wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes cause billions of dollars of property damage each year. Can federal climate scientists help the insurance industry keep up?

To find out, Steve Inskeep talks to Robin Wright, a contributor to The New Yorker and a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute Of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center.