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As kids head back to class, school nurses are stretched thin as they manage increased workloads and delta-variant surges. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with three school nurses about this year's concerns.

The American dream of owning a small home with a backyard is being put on hold. In 1982, 40% of houses built were entry-level homes. By 2019, the annual share had fallen to 7%.

The nation's poison control centers saw a 245% jump in reported exposure cases from July to August as more people take the anti-parasite drug that some falsely claim treats COVID-19.

Milwaukee-based Colectivo Coffee's is now the nation's largest unionized café. Facing challenges that only worsened during the pandemic, restaurant and service industry workers are demanding change.

President Biden went to Louisiana Friday to get a look at the damage caused by Hurricane Ida. The storm blasted into the state leaving hundreds of thousands still without power and many with no water.

Shugri Said Salh recounts her journey from goat- and camel-herding nomad in Somalia to nurse and mom of three in California in her memoir, The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, about the new Texas law banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.

Former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick pleaded not guilty to sexually abusing a boy nearly 50 years ago. Ousted from the priesthood, he's the only U.S. Cardinal to face such charges.

Philadelphians are taking stock of damage after record-high floodwaters caused by Hurricane Ida filled their homes and businesses. Northwest Philly's Manayunk neighborhood was hit especially hard.

The Kabul airlift is over, but the effort to resettle tens of thousands of vulnerable Afghans in the U.S. is just beginning. And there are already some very big obstacles.

The company will no longer host a website that promoted itself as a way to "help enforce the Texas Heartbeat Act." Online activists and boycotters inundated the site with false reports.

Texas's restrictive new abortion law has raised concerns that people who drive for the ride-hailing companies could face lawsuits for transporting passengers to clinics.