President Biden is resolute about enforcing the administration's new, tougher plan to combat the pandemic, which includes vaccination and testing mandates. Republican governors are threatening to sue.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Baz Warne and J.J. Burnel about The Stranglers' new album, Dark Matters.

Months of intense heat and smoke is wearing on westerners, sidelining workers who have to be outdoors and disrupting all kinds of summer, and soon to be fall plans.

Private businesses and unions react to President Biden's new plan to require vaccinations and testing for millions of American workers.

Since the 1960s, an unusual alliance in redistricting has brought Black and white lawmakers together to draw Missouri's 1st District to ensure Black voters can elect Black Democrats to congress.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Andy Van Kleunen, CEO of the National Skills Coalition, about the shortage of skilled workers needed to fulfill President Biden's infrastructure plan.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Paul DiPasquale about the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond Va,, and the new time capsule that will be buried near the monument's old pedestal.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with the Kathy Gannon of the Associated Press about what she's witnessed in Kabul as Afghans react to life under Taliban rule.

Veterinary care has become often too expensive for owners with injured or ill animals. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Karen Leslie, of The Pet Fund, about the reasons why.

Trucks wait in Pakistan to cross over into Afghanistan, sometimes for days. We hear from one driver.