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In just three days, one year's worth of rain fell on Zhengzhou, a city of 12 million in central China. The resulting flooding in the region has killed dozens of people, and the rain hasn't stopped.

NPR's A Martinez catches up with Dr. Joseph Varon of Houston's United Memorial Medical Center about his reflections as we mark the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It was a somber moment remembering the 23,000 people killed in Gaza following the Hamas attack on Israel which killed 1,200 people last October.

Chicago is one of several cities where tens of thousands of migrants have strained resources. The city now is now telling many new arrivals that their stays in shelters will be limited to 60 days.

On Thursday, the World Health Organization announced that West Africa was Ebola-free. The virus has been found to survive in people for nine months or more.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Columbia Global Senior Advisor Kian Tajbakhsh about the protests in Iran, which have continued for more than 100 days.

The historic heat began blasting the Southwestern U.S. in June, stretching from Texas across New Mexico and Arizona and into California's desert.

ALISON DES FORGES (pronounced DAY-FORZSH) is a consultant to Human Rights Watch Africa. Last month, the Rwandan Patriotic Army opened fire at a refugee camp. Human Rights Watch says 2000 people were killed. Des Forges visited the camp following the massacre. DES FORGES is also the Co-Chair of the International Commission on Human Rights Abuse in Rwanda. She is a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where her specialty is the African countries of Rwanda and Burundi. (THIS CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Diet, exercise and sleep are fundamental to our health, but so it our relationship to light. A massive, new study suggests light-driven disruption can take years off our lives.

Roughly 25% of the 7,152 tests in the most recent 24-hour period resulted in positive coronavirus diagnoses.