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After 9/11, security measures on the streets of Washington, D.C., ramped up. Now dialed down, the way Americans access their government changed — and new threats show this security may not be enough.

Hospitals in Tennessee continue to set new records for COVID-19 patients.

A sketch from Saturday Night Live shortly after Sept. 11 that skewered pro-war elites was recently portrayed on social media as actually being pro-war itself.

Surveillance programs like the Bush administration’s registry of people from Muslim-majority countries led to the detention of thousands.

We speak with three authors to reflect on their works of 9/11 fiction and the last 20 years of reality.

Angeline Murimirwa leads CAMFED, a group that has given scholarships to 4.8 million girls in Africa. And now the group has been awarded the $2.5 million Hilton Humanitarian Prize.

Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Texas law clashes with Supreme Court precedent and could be a model for how states could put other constitutional rights in jeopardy.

But the justice was philosophical about the outcome: "I wrote a dissent — and that's the way it works," he said. The decision was part of what court watchers call the "shadow docket."

If passed, the move would make LA the first major district in the country to require vaccines for eligible kids.

In an interview with NPR, the 83-year-old said: "When exactly I should retire, or will retire, has many complex parts to it. I think I'm aware of most of them, and I ... will consider them."

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician, on President Biden's strategy to slow the spread of the coronavirus delta variant.

Earlier this week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken blamed the Taliban for the grounding of flights.