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Cheryl W. Thompson is an investigative correspondent for NPR.

On Monday, Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul was the target of a rocket attack, capping off a tense weekend in Afghanistan.

While President Biden honored the 19 children and two teachers killed in the massacre at Robb Elementary School, residents want to know why the police were slow to respond to the shooting.

A last-minute intervention ensured the military was paid despite the government shutdown, but military families remain anxious as the shutdown drags on without a long-term solution.

The hardy tamarisk, which arrived from Asia, is crowding out native plants in many Western states. It chokes small streams and rivers and sucks up scarce water. And it's hard to get rid of it.

The storm slammed into southern Louisiana as a Category 2 with stronger than expected winds, but it's moving quickly over the Gulf Coast. Officials warn of powerful storm surges and high winds.

A New Jersey business owner stumbles onto a real-life international conspiracy: He discovers that a powerful group of people get together and set international shipping rates.

Two journalists who were covering the rainfall in North Carolina were killed, their newsroom reported. The National Hurricane Center warns the storm will bring heavy rains and flash flooding.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jenny Hixon, outreach director for the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, about the millions of dollars raised to help immigrants at detention centers and how the organization is using the funds.

It's been 16 years since Kathleen Hawk Sawyer was in charge of the federal Bureau of Prisons. On big change is that the prison population has jumped from 65,000 in 1992 to 177,000 in 2019.