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NPR's Audie Cornish chats with Wall Street Journal reporter Alexandra Wexler about rising rates of avocado theft in South Africa.

Just as Haiti was beginning to emerge from the shock of the brutal presidential assassination, the nation has been thrust into another crisis: an earthquake that has killed nearly 1,300 people.

What this means, according to researchers, is that students who may have opted to transfer in previous years have instead stayed put at their schools or withdrawn altogether.

"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.

Amid resumed evacuations following Thursday's deadly bombing outside the Kabul airport, NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ali Lafiti of Al Jazeera English about the latest developmens in Afghanistan.

A soul singer from Atlanta, an Iroquois bead artist, West African dancers and an Armenian vocalist are among this year's recipients of National Heritage Fellowship

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said elections would be delayed from Sept. 19 to Oct. 17. After 102 days without community spread, a new COVID-19 cluster in Auckland has grown to 58 cases.

Wanda Vázquez assumed office after the former governor resigned amid protests last summer. But her year in office has been marked by scandal.

President Trump wants a U.S. hard-liner on Cuba and Venezuela to head the Inter-American Development Bank, prompting pushback from critics who note the bank's always been run by a Latin American.

The head of the World Health Organization had called the island nation "a global exemplar" for its success in controlling the virus. Four new cases emerge after 101 days with none.