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The number of Americans and Afghans being evacuated from Kabul is ramping up, hitting new one-day highs. But the situation at the Kabul airport remains extremely volatile.

Russian forces conducted strikes against two cities in western Ukraine. That's far from the main fighting fronts in the two-week-old war. Is it signaling a shift in Russia's strategy?

There's talk of a ceasefire to allow food into ravaged Eastern Ghouta in Syria, which has been under siege for five years. NPR's Don Gonyea speaks to Mouaid El Deen about what life is like there.

NPR's Renee Montagne asks Georgetown Day School guidance counselor Amy Killy about advising students at the prestigious Washington, D.C., high school about sexual assault.

Day four of the government shutdown brings no signs of any progress in resolving the stalemate between Republicans and Democrats. It may be some small solace to know that this is by no means the first time the government has been largely closed because of disputes between Congress and the White House. In fact, by some accounts this is the 17th time that an impasse has shuttered federal agencies.

In North Carolina and California, field hospitals have opened to help with patient overflow as a surge of COVID-19 cases continues to stress hospitals.

A lack of testing for coronavirus has hampered the U.S. public health response to the outbreak. But in Washington state, an outbreak hot spot, a university lab can now run 1,000 tests a day.

President Bush on Tuesday led grieving students, faculty and families in a convocation in Blacksburg, Va., for the 32 people killed Monday by a lone gunman in a shooting on the Virginia Tech campus. The dead and injured were remembered in speeches and prayers. Seung-Hui Cho shot himself after the rampage. Police are investigating what drove him to his murderous assault.

China is considering further measures to reduce pollution in Beijing, with less than two weeks to go before the start of the Olympic Games. Even after authorities took half the cars off the street, the city is still shrouded in smog.

Thousands of visitors came to Washington, D.C., to see Trump's inauguration but won't get to see the ceremony in person after it was moved indoors. We get an inauguration day view from the streets.