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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Zalmay Khalilzad, who stepped down last week as the U.S. envoy to Afghanistan. He played the lead role in negotiating a deal with the Taliban to withdraw U.S. troops.

The Santa Clarita man in 2014 bought a season pass for $150 that included two meals a day, according to MEL magazine. He says with all his savings, he paid off his student loans and bought a house.

The pandemic has seen far fewer students go to college — that trend continued this fall, according to preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Sen. Amy Klobuchar about a Senate hearing Tuesday with representatives from Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube about safeguarding young users on their platforms.

A former Unalaska special education teacher has returned to the district to act as the elementary school’s top administrator.That comes as the Unalaska City School District grapples with an internal complaint from the school’s previous principal, who will be paid the rest of her salary and expenses even after resigning last month.The district hired former UCSD special education teacher Marti Rookala earlier this month to take the helm of the elementary school.

Hurricane-level winds slammed the Aleutian Islands last week; a former Unalaska special education teacher will act as the elementary school’s top administrator; and government and church-run boarding schools took the lives of many Indigenous young people while many survivors followed challenging paths to overcome an experience described as cultural genocide.

Record rainfall and high winds have caused flooding, power outages and evacuations across California's Bay Area. This comes as the state has been grappling with a two-year drought.

Hackett has been riding the coaster for 25 years. The pandemic slowed his progress, but he recently hit 6,000 rides. Hackett isn't stopping to celebrate. His next goal is 10,000 rides.

Leaked documents from inside Facebook show the social network was caught flat-footed by the "Stop the Steal" movement, which culminated in the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol.

Amazon warehouse staff in Staten Island are planning to file for a union vote. Some 2,000 workers have signed cards seeking an election, according to the self-organized independent Amazon Labor Union.