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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell died early Monday due to complications from COVID-19.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jacqueline Charles, Caribbean correspondent for the Miami Herald, about 17 people, including children, who were kidnapped by a gang in Haiti on Saturday.

Donna and Todd Skinner grew a squash that stands about chest-high. It weighs 2,164 pounds. That's more than a ton — the same as an old Volkswagen Beetle or the Liberty Bell.

The Sky defeated the Phoenix Mercury 80-74 in a comeback win. The team was led by superstar Candace Parker, a Chicago native, who returned to play at home after 13 seasons in LA.

In Southern California, the Alisal Fire has been burning for a week along one of the most scenic stretches of the coast north of Santa Barbara. It is now 78% contained.

In many hospitals, the only thing keeping ICUs fully staffed is a rotating cast of traveling nurses. Hospitals are having to pay them so much that their staff nurses are tempted to hit the road too.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Pashtana Durrani, a political rights activist based in Kandahar, Afghanistan, about what life is like for females under the Taliban regime.

Concerns about a faltering property company and widespread power shortages have resulted in China's slowest economic growth figures in a year.

Following the Atlanta spa shootings in March, many Asian adoptees reported feeling unable to express their fear and sadness to their white families. Adoption agencies are trying to bridge the gap.

A restaurant in Washington, D.C., is offering donated welcome meals of traditional food to newly arriving Afghans. The chef cooking those meals knows what it's like to leave home and family behind.