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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Richard Trenchard, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' representative in Afghanistan, about a worsening hunger crisis there.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Janine Felson, deputy head of the Belize Delegation for COP26 and advisor to the Alliance of Small Island States, about how negotiations went at COP26 in Glasgow.

Danielle Kurtzleben talks to Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson, expert on tobacco prevention in Native American communities, about the Navajo Nation's new ban on indoor smoking in public places.

There wasn't a Democratic primary contest running in parallel with the Republican race in Florida this year. The scorched-earth battle that ensued between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich may have an effect when the general election comes to Florida later this year. Did anyone benefit from the hard-fought primary contest — other than Florida's TV stations, which aired millions of dollars in ads?

Weather and tree branches cause 40 percent of U.S. power outages, which get people talking about installing underground lines — but they balk at the price. But analysts say no one's paying attention to how much it really costs to keep repairing aboveground lines, and that should matter.

Formerly incarcerated New Yorkers and their advocates gathered in Syracuse and several locations across the state Wednesday to launch a new campaign to overhaul the state’s sentencing laws. “Communities Not Cages” aims to shed light on what they say are racist and draconian measures that unjustly impact black and brown communities.

The 2021 election is barely behind us, and the 2022 race for governor of New York is heating up with State Attorney General Tish James, announcing that she’d be running. James’ reports on the state’s handling of nursing home policy during the COVID-19 pandemic and her finding that Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women helped lead to the political downfall of the former governor.

If you prefer your Halloween entertainment to be on the less terrifying side, we've got something for you: A robust subgenre of scary movies that are actually kind of warm and fuzzy.

The number of people getting boosters every day in the U.S. is more than double the number of people getting their first shot, a win for Biden's booster plan but a loss for greater vaccination goals.

The Rust shooting has put a new focus on film set safety. Behind-the-scenes workers have spent decades organizing behind policies that would make sets safer, but obstacles have stood in their way.