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Record rainfall and high winds have caused flooding, power outages and evacuations across California's Bay Area. This comes as the state has been grappling with a two-year drought.

Nations are gathering the first week of November to negotiate new climate change pledges. But a new report card from the United Nations says those pledges aren't enough to stop extreme climate change.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, about the thousands of homeowners in California at risk of losing insurance as the risk of wildfires grow.

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has told his Foreign Ministry to expel 10 ambassadors, including the U.S., for demanding the release of businessman Osman Karvara, who has been imprisoned by Turkey.

The Department of Health and Human Services said Monday its new regulation, which will go into effect Nov. 8, will restore clinics' ability to refer women seeking abortions to a provider.

Scott Simon speaks to PBS News Hour correspondent Jane Ferguson about the latest developments in Afghanistan, where millions face food shortages as the Taliban struggle to maintain security.

City officials spoke earlier Saturday about Friday night's tragedy that killed at least eight people at a Houston music festival.

With eight dead, concertgoers have been filing lawsuits against Astroworld's planners. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with University of Suffolk professor Keith Still about how tragedies like this happen.

Friends of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist murdered by agents of his native Saudi government two years ago, have launched an organization to promote human rights and democracy in the Arab world.

The latest report card from the March of Dimes finds that preterm birth rates increased for Black and Native people. It also finds that the rate of maternal mortality has doubled in the past 30 years.