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When Kabul fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15, the president of Afghanistan fled. It was so fast, the group didn't seem to have a plan to run the country. Tuesday, they announced an interim government.

Organizers of evacuation flights are pressing the state department to do more to help them get hundreds of people out of Afghanistan. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pushing back.

NPR'S Ailsa Chang speaks with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy about the devastation Hurricane Ida brought and what state and federal governments are doing to provide assistance to those affected.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly checks in with Filipe Ribeiro, the Afghanistan representative for Doctors Without Borders, to find out how the organization is doing right now.

"It really doesn't impact me or anyone else," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said about whether a person gets vaccinated. "Yeah, that's not true at all," Fauci said in response on Tuesday.

For the past two weeks, thousands of Afghans have arrived in the U.S. Many have passed through a huge makeshift processing center in Virginia. NPR reporters got an exclusive look inside the facility.

Staples began singing with her family as a teenager. The Staple Singers started out in gospel, but moved over to pop, eventually playing the '69 Harlem Cultural Festival. Originally broadcast in 1989.

The Taliban released a list of interim ministers of a new acting government at a press conference in Kabul. The list included many who are under U.N. and/or U.S. sanctions.

Shabana Basij-Rasikh is the founder of the first and only boarding school for girls in Afghanistan. We hear her story in Part I of our series The Longest War.

David's exit is contentious, with both sides accusing the other of falsehoods. Last month, the New York attorney general's report said David shared confidential files with Cuomo's administration.