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The Taliban say their blitz through Afghanistan is complete. President Biden on Tuesday tours Ida damage in the Northeast. Tennessee and other states are struggling with the latest COVID-19 surge.

Americans and others are still trying to get out of Afghanistan, after the U.S. withdrawal and Taliban takeover. At the same time, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is involved in crisis talks.

Volunteers have painted more than 150,000 red hearts on a wall along the River Thames and people stop to write messages and names of lost loved ones inside the hearts.

The Nov. 13, 2015, attacks on the Bataclan theater and elsewhere killed 130 and injured hundreds. "From then on, everybody felt vulnerable," says a victims' advocate. The trial will last nine months.

Said Noor was 11 in 2001, growing up in an Afghan village. He later served as a U.S. Army interpreter, moved to Texas and became a U.S. citizen. Then he had to help rescue his family from the Taliban.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with economist Howard Kunreuther, co-director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Process Center, about climate change's impact on the insurance industry.

Guns N' Roses was the victim of BottleRock Napa Valley music festival's strict 10 p.m. curfew. The plug was pulled on the group, but stage amps and the crowd kept the song "Paradise City" going.

Many kids are feeling anxious about returning to school. Mental health providers say that kids with past trauma and pre-existing mental illness are the most vulnerable.

Fierce competition to get children into the top schools has spawned an aggressive parenting culture named for a traditional-medicine treatment in which chicken blood is injected to stimulate energy.

NPR'S Rachel Martin talks to New York City Councilman Justin Brannan about how his district is recovering from the damage of last week's rain and flooding. He represents District 43 in Brooklyn.