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1471 episodes transcribedThe Taliban now control Afghanistan. How did the country's government fall so quickly — and why didn't the U.S. see it coming? NPR put those questions...
In the agricultural town of Salinas, Calif., Police Officer William Yetter repeatedly makes mistakes. First there's a stolen bike he doesn't investiga...
In the last week, the Taliban have gained control of large sections of Afghanistan faster than most people expected. The Pentagon is dispatching troop...
What struck John Kerry the most about this week's landmark U.N. report on climate change? "The irreversibility" of some of the most catastrophic effec...
In the next few weeks, millions of children will head back to school. Many of them are too young to be vaccinated. At the same time, children are bein...
The Tigray region in northern Ethiopia is at the center of a civil war that broke out last November, after rebels there attacked a military base. Sinc...
A landmark new report from the United Nations warns that the world is running out of time to avoid the catastrophic effects of global warming. Those e...
Episode four of On Our Watch from NPR and KQED investigates the case of a plainclothes Stockton police officer who grabbed a Black 16-year-old, took h...
After months of bipartisan negotiation, the Senate may finally vote this weekend on a 2,700 page infrastructure bill that includes $1 trillion in spen...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is refusing to resign after this week's explosive report from the state's attorney general. It detailed multiple allega...
It's been exactly one year since a massive explosion in Beirut's port killed over 200 people, injured thousands and caused billions of dollars in dama...
At the stroke of midnight last Saturday, a federal moratorium that had been in place for nearly eleven months expired. After the Supreme Court ruled t...
The United States has reached yet another turning point in this pandemic—one that may feel particularly unrelenting and confusing.Learn more about spo...
In episode three of On Our Watch, we examine the records that were unsealed by this transparency law to piece together what exactly happened on Septem...
The Delta variant is more dangerous and contagious than many experts initially realized. In response to the uptick in cases and hospitalizations count...
When Simone Biles dropped out of her Olympic competitions this week, the whole world took notice. At 24 years old Biles is the most decorated gymnast...
Four police officers offered harrowing testimony of their experiences protecting the U.S. Capitol on January 6th during the first hearing for a new De...
Rising seas are threatening coastal communities around the world, which will need billions of dollars to protect themselves. It's clear the water is c...
Food service workers in America have newfound bargaining power, and they're using it — quitting jobs for better ones at record rates. NPR's Alina Sely...
One officer in Los Angeles used car inspections to hit on women. Three hundred miles away in the San Francisco Bay Area, another woman says an officer...
