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The spray-painted image of a girl with a balloon sold for $1.4 million and then partially self-destructed. This time "Love is in the Bin" is expected to sell for well over $5 million.

In his new book Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China, Desmond Shum writes about the disappearance of his ex-wife in China.

Officials in Nebraska recently stopped publishing county-level coronavirus data — citing privacy concerns. Public health experts say that's false and creates a dangerous blind spot.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Kristin Myers, editor in chief of the personal finance website The Balance, about federal unemployment programs that expire on Monday.

About a year ago, Brigitte Xie took up playing the piano. She then won the Elite International Music Competition and will perform at Carnegie Hall — which the pandemic has delayed.

The CDC's COVID-19 data set is supposed to help track the pandemic, but a new NPR analysis has found the majority of fields are blank and millions of cases across the country are missing altogether.

In her new book, All That She Carried, historian Tiya Miles tells the story of an enslaved woman who, upon hearing her child was to be sold off, hastily packed her a bag with a few personal items.

The United States is rushing to evacuate both Americans and Afghans who worked with the U.S. out of Kabul as the Taliban take control.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Gen. David Petraeus about whether the CIA and U.S. intelligence knew the Taliban were moving rapidly and that the Afghan government would fall so quickly.

It's been two decades since the Taliban had full control of Afghanistan. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly spoke to historian Carter Malkasian about who's running the Taliban now — and who's funding them.