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It's menstrual hygiene. The topic makes many folks uncomfortable. Yet in the developing world, it's a problem that keeps girls from going to school and playing sports. Now things are changing.

Steve Inskeep talks to Republican Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, who leads the National Republican Senatorial Committee which is charged with keeping his party in the Senate majority.

As opening up after a year of the pandemic becomes more and more real, we hear from across the country what people are most excited about — from hugging family members to entering high school.

It was the worst plane crash in U.S. history at the time -- two passenger planes collided over the Grand Canyon. Now a historical marker reminds visitors that the crash changed commercial aviation.

Flooding across West Virginia has killed at least 23 people and seriously damaged or destroyed more than 100 homes. It's the worst flooding in a century for some areas of the state.

In Iraq, where COVID-19 is surging, the death toll from a fire in the coronavirus ward of a hospital continues to climb. Officials say more than 90 people have died and dozens more have been injured.

Two National Health Service workers with long histories of severe allergies received the Pfizer, BioNTech coronavirus vaccine Tuesday. Both are now recovering after bad reactions to the dose.

The history of Jones Island is the subject of a new PBS documentary: People of the Port: A Jones Island Documentary.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Omar al-Mosmary, a Libyan journalist based in Benghazi, about how life there is impacted by the Islamic State and other violent factions. He says half the city that was controlled by al-Qaida is now controlled by Islamic State. No one lives there except for fighters and their families. The residents who were living there have crowded into the rest of town.

NASA says a partial eclipse will be visible throughout the country. But within a "path of totality" from Oregon to South Carolina, an eclipse industry is booming.