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Speaking about the Taliban's ousting of the U.S.-backed Afghan government, Biden acknowledged, "The truth is this did unfold more quickly than we anticipated."

"Boy, the truth of that song really came out," says the 71-year-old soul artist and former lead singer of The Persuasions. He spent three months in a hospital due to an infected esophagus.

Now that recreational use of marijuana is legal in four states, law enforcement officials are looking for quicker ways to test drivers for excessive pot use. Entrepreneurs are taking on the challenge.

FBI Director Christopher Wray told the gymnasts, who had testified at a Senate Judiciary hearing, he was "deeply and profoundly sorry that so many people let you down over and over again."

Downtown Sylva, North Carolina, has a new addition — a sculpture of Harriet Tubman. Meet the local woman behind the sculpture.

Over 20,400 pieces of gun-related legislation have been proposed in the past 25 years after mass shootings. Whether they tighten or loosen gun laws depends on the state's dominant political party.

The president spoke a day after Texas Democratic state lawmakers left their state in protest of GOP voting legislation.

As part of our series Letters of Note, former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley tells Audie Cornish how he once replied to an angry letter from the Ku Klux Klan.

A look at the would-be blockbusters and prestige pictures Hollywood has in store as the weather warms and audiences come out of pandemic hibernation.

As we approach six months since the fall of Kabul, a new resettlement office in Alexandria, Va., helps new arrivals through the resettlement process. It is run by recent Afghan refugees.

Music journalist and Mary. J. Blige superfan Julianne Escobedo Shepherd reviews a few songs from the singer's latest album, Good Morning Gorgeous.

As President Biden visited Uvalde on Sunday, federal officials said they would investigate how law enforcement responded to the massacre that left 19 fourth-grade students and two teachers dead.

Spellers were greeted with a new preliminary-round format that gave them no time to get comfortable. They had to get through three words in one turn at the microphone to continue in the bee.

NPR reviewer Tom Moon looks at the nominees in the top categories for this year's Grammy Awards and finds little for music lovers but plenty for the music business. Moon says viewers should expect few if any surprises in the annual ceremony, from a list of artists who simply sold the most records.

School safety experts have coalesced around a handful of important measures communities and politicians can take to protect students.

British punk/soul/mod rocker Paul Weller's 30-year career included leading the seminal band The Jam, and the neo-soul outfit Style Council. He's had a solo career since 1992 and his new CD is called As Is Now. Day to Day music critic Christian Bordal shares his thoughts on the CD and on Weller.

The Olympics broadcast this year offers viewer-friendly features such as "simulcam," which allows viewers to compare the performance of two skiers. Hank Adams, CEO of Sportvision, talks to Michele Norris about the technology being used in this year's broadcast.

Movie critic Bob Mondello says Walk The Line, the new biopic about the country music legend known as "The Man in Black, boasts terrific performances from Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter, while the film itself is conventional.

Harriet Miers, nominated Monday to succeed Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, is considered one of President Bush's closest and most loyal advisers.

Influential physicist Joseph Polchinski has died at 63. Caltech Professor Sean Carroll remembers Polchinski and the significant contributions he made to theoretical physics.