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President Biden has yet to respond to the news of the Taliban taking over Afghanistan — as helicopters evacuated U.S. personnel from the Embassy in Kabul. Biden has no public events scheduled Monday.

NPR's Noel King speaks with Jon Finer, deputy national security adviser, on what the Biden administration did or did not know about the Taliban's strength and strategy in Afghanistan.

"Whatever happens in the coming days, we hold true to the idea that women can and should help shape the future of Afghanistan," said one nonprofit, as alarm rises about the Taliban takeover.

NPR's Noel King talks to former national security adviser John Bolton about what the U.S. can do now that the Afghan government has collapsed, and the Taliban have taken over the capital Kabul.

Afghan women who had built new lives in Paris watch with horror as the Taliban retake the Afghan capital Kabul — where many of their family members remain.

Jaime Cortez's debut collection, Gordo, is set in and around the same dusty California town that inspired John Steinbeck. It's a lovely portrait of a time and place that still manages to be universal.

Demonstrators converged on Lafayette Park outside the White House on Sunday — one of several places where Afghans living in the U.S. gathered as the Taliban took control of the the capital Kabul.

For 20 years, Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht has been creating hi-tech fashion — merging couture and technology. Her designs include the Spider and Proximity dresses that move when people get near.

As Max Woosey and his parents helped to care for a dying neighbor, the man gave Max his tent. Max camped in his backyard for 500 nights to raise funds for hospice care. He raised more than $750,000.

A new report details the discovery of Sparta, a lion cub who was only weeks old when she died about 28,000 years ago. Sparta still has her coat and her internal organs.