Weekend Edition Sunday

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with CapRadio's Nicole Nixon about the final stretch before the California gubernatorial recall election.

President Biden is resolute about enforcing the administration's new, tougher plan to combat the pandemic, which includes vaccination and testing mandates. Republican governors are threatening to sue.

At least 10 hospitals in the state started rationing care for everyone because they're filled with COVID-19 patients. But there's deep distrust of authority.

In 2009, reporter Jay Price met Chris Goeke in Afghanistan. The 23-year old was killed in battle months later. Now, with that war over, Price set out to to learn more about him.

Joy Banner's family took shelter in a house on a plantation their ancestors helped build. "They were not able to have this kind of house for their own protection when a hurricane hit them," she says.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Mayor Steven Fulop of Jersey City, NJ about the aftermath of Hurricane Ida and the city's plans to to strengthen infrastructure against extreme weather events.

Extreme weather fueled by climate change is straining the financial and human resources of emergency agencies and first responders, especially wildland firefighters across much of the West.

Ivermectin is used to fight worms and other parasites in animals and humans. But people are taking it to treat COVID-19, despite warnings from experts and poisonings tied to the drug.

Many children of 9/11 victims were too young to remember their parents who died. They've grown up living with the tension between having a personal connection to the day but few, if any memories.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Karla Valenti about her middle-grade novel, Loteria. Life and Death meet to play a game, choosing a girl who'll either live or die depending on who wins.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Dr. Carlos del Rio, epidemiologist at Emory University, about the delta surge and the emergence of another coronavirus mutation.

After a summer that went badly, with a chaotic pull-out from Afghanistan and a fourth pandemic wave, the President sees his approval ratings drop and his agenda frustrated.