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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Joe Valiente, emergency management director for Jefferson Parish in Louisiana, about damage caused by Hurricane Zeta to the area.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Serena Fitka, executive director of the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, about this year's dramatic scarcity of Yukon River salmon and its effect on communities.

With new CDC guidelines saying those vaccinated against COVID-19 can ditch face masks except for certain situations, NPR's Scott Simon ponders how masks have become a symbol for this age.

Many of the states that are moving to ban abortion tend to have less access to health care, worse maternal and infant health care outcomes and weaker social supports for children and families.

The average American adult spends four or five hours a day on their phone. Is there a line where that much phone time crosses into addiction? The Indicator from Planet Money asked an economist.

When a critter spends 17 years underground, it's not easy to study. So as Brood X cicadas break out, they're followed closely by researchers who must cram a lot of work in about six weeks.

Employers added 194,000 jobs in September, a second month of disappointing growth. Employers added 194,000 jobs in September, down from a revised 366,000 jobs in August, the Labor Department says.

Writer-director Fennell describes her Oscar-nominated film about a woman who hunts down sexual predators as "a kind of fantasy" but also as something "much darker and, I hope, more honest than that."

Many rely on the Klamath River Basin on the California border, especially with the historic draught in the West. Things got heated this summer between the area's tribes and ranchers.

"This is a life-threatening situation," the National Hurricane Center said, urging people to take precautions against the risk of flooding. Louisiana and Alabama have declared a state of emergency.