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NPR's A Martinez asks 1999 World Cup champion Brandi Chastain why the U.S. Women's National Team underperformed this year, and what's next for women's soccer in America.

Kabul fell to the Taliban close to two years ago, but desperate Afghans continue to flee, even taking the dangerous route into the U.S. across the Mexican border. Here's the story of one such family.

The Navy has identified the wreckage of the USS Ommaney Bay sunk in a World War Two kamikaze attack. Joe Cooper, 101, of North Carolina, survived the attack, and calls it "a miracle."

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to public health professor S. Jay Olshansky at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who has studied the longevity of every U.S. president.

The measure, subject of a special election on Tuesday, would have made it harder to pass amendments. It was seen an an attempt by state GOP lawmakers to thwart an upcoming abortion amendment.

NPR's A Martinez talks to rapper Reason about his latest album, Porches. In it, he raps about how that change of address changed his whole world view.

Three people are charged with assault after a waterside brawl in Montgomery, Ala. Pakistan's parliament is expected to be dissolved. Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg launches a PAC.

Preston Padden helped Rupert Murdoch launch the Fox broadcast network in the 1990s. Now he argues Murdoch has proved unfit to hold the license for a Philadelphia station.

We know that illicit fentanyl is flowing into the U.S. from Mexico. Yet we rarely hear from the couriers who smuggle most of it through legal ports of entry. This is one of their stories.

Sergie Krukoff was born on Oct. 8, 1931 in Nikolski, Alaska, where he enjoyed his youth spending much of his free time hunting. Krukoff survived forced evacuation during World War II. He later met his future wife, Mariamna "Maryann" Merculieff during a fur seal harvest in the Pribilof Islands. Sergie and Maryann moved to Unalaska in 1958, and they raised their 12 children here.