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America's longest war is over. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby speaks with NPR's Noel King about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, and what's next.

"I was not going to extend this forever war," President Biden said from the White House, "and I was not extending a forever exit."

A trio of Upper West Side neighbors and true-crime devotees stumbles upon an actual murder and proceeds to make a podcast about it in this shrewdly funny Hulu series.

Some Afghans welcome their new Taliban rulers, while many others remember the excesses of the harsh ideology they enforced when they last seized power in the 1990s.

Hurricane Ida isn't quite done with the United States, dumping bands of rain from the Gulf Coast into New England.

The U.S. military is out of Afghanistan. Hurricane Ida left behind a path of destruction in Louisiana. The federal government is looking into five states' efforts to stop schools from requiring masks.

Some 30,000 people are now under orders to evacuate from the Lake Tahoe Region, as the out-of-control Caldor Fire is spreading rapidly in extremely windy and hot conditions.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Mary Beth Long, a former assistant secretary of defense for International Security Affairs, about efforts to evacuate U.S. citizens and others from Afghanistan.

The London rapper performs songs from her new album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert from a living room dropped inside a void.

Another destructive fire season has Western states searching for ways to prevent it. The Southeast just might have the answers: setting controlled fires before the wildfires come.