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Girls enter a school before class in Kabul on Sept. 12, 2021. In a surprise decision, the hardline leadership of Afghanistan's new rulers has decided against opening educational institutions to girls beyond sixth grade.

Taliban reverses decision, barring Afghan girls from attending school beyond 6th grade

The rulers' decision — reneging on a previous promise — came at the start of the new school year in Afghanistan and risks further alienating the international community.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies on her nomination to become an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court during the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearing on Tuesday.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings: What happened Tuesday

Judge Jackson defended her record of sentences she handed down in child pornography cases after several Republican senators alleged she was soft on crime.

Assemblyman Ash Kalra, D-San Jose, discusses his bill that would pay for the universal health care bill, during a news conference at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022.

California Assembly advances involuntary servitude amendment

California is the latest state trying to remove “involuntary servitude” as constitutionally protected form of punishment. California's constitution bans slavery.

Dulce Garcia, Chair of the San Diego Immigrants Rights Consortium, rallied to end the Trump era immigration policy called Title 42 at the San Diego/Tijuana border crossing in San Diego, March 21, 2022.

Immigration activists call for end of Trump-era asylum order still in effect

Title 42 allows border officials to use the pandemic as justification for turning away asylum seekers without a hearing before an immigration judge.

Read Ketanji Brown Jackson's statement at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing

Read the opening remarks Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson prepared to read on Monday, the first day of her Supreme Court nomination hearing.

Vice President Harris looks at a hyperwall during a climate change discussion at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on Nov. 5 , 2021. The SEC unveiled new proposals on Monday requiring companies to disclose climate-related risks.

The SEC wants companies to disclose how climate change is affecting them

Under the rule proposals, companies would be required to share information about their greenhouse gas emissions as well as climate-related risks faced by their businesses.

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson's Senate confirmation hearings are set to begin Monday, March 21.

Confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson begin Monday. Here's what to expect

Next week the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, the federal judge President Biden has tapped as his Supreme Court nominee.

In this Aug. 22, 2021, file photo, a family walks over cracked mud near Lake Oroville's shore as water levels remain low due to continuing drought conditions in Oroville, Calif.

California reduces supplies to water agencies amid drought

The low allocation means people will be urged to conserve water by using less outside on landscaping and other activities. The announcement comes as California braces for another dry, drought-stricken year.

A Ukrainian woman holding her family's passports is in Tijuana at the San Ysidro Port of Entry hoping to be allowed into the United States, March 11, 2022.

Now safe in the US, Ukrainian asylum seeker reflects on the inequities she witnessed

A 25-year-old from Kiev is saying the same thing as other asylum seekers and advocates: Border officials continue to deny asylum to people of color.

Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine says no-fly zone has to be on the table

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch about the Russian invasion and the possibility of a no-fly zone over Ukraine.

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