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Pat Barker returns to the scene of the Trojan War in The Women of Troy, but this time after the city has fallen and its women are grieving their old lives while trying to figure out their new ones.

The book is a mystery of sorts, set at an upscale North Carolina resort during World War II. Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle teaches at a high school with a student population that's 30% Native American.

For India, the power shift in Kabul may mean a loss of security, as well as a loss of economic power and influence in a region increasingly dominated by another neighbor that it's uneasy about: China.

Scientists said the concentration of carbon dioxide, which contributes to climate change, is the highest in data going back 800,000 years, based on ice core records.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Charlotte Bellis of Al Jazeera about the attack at the Kabul airport, killing at least 13 U.S. troops and 60 Afghans. An extreme group known as ISIS-K took responsibility.

Farmers in southern Oregon are pumping groundwater onto fields. They're not getting lake water for irrigation because water levels there were too low. Now, homeowners' wells are running dry.

Pakistan's neighbor has long been associated with the Taliban. The group controls most Afghan territory after decades of war with the U.S. Afghan refugees are trying to cross into Pakistan.

Thousands of evacuees are entering through Dulles International Airport. A Biden administration official said the U.S. has opened a COVID-19 vaccination site nearby.

The video game's new feature takes players back in time to experience Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic 1963 speech. But some people worry it sends the wrong message about the civil rights leader.

After a 90-day review, U.S investigators did not turn up any clear answer on whether the coronavirus hopped from an animal to a human — or somehow escaped from a lab.