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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy about how urgent the need for COVID boosters is, how the rollout will work and whether we should even be giving boosters in this country.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with New Orleans Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson about the summer spike in violence and how the city has changed their policing efforts under a Justice Department order.

The soccer stadium in the Haitian seaside town of Les Cayes is now a tent city of people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by the earthquake. Aid continues to arrive, but slowly.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Grover Street, a travel nurse and author of the book Chasing the Surge: Life as a Travel Nurse in a Global Pandemic, about working on the road with COVID-19 patients.

Filipe Ribeiro of Doctors Without Borders Afghanistan talks to NPR about the future of the country's health care system under Taliban rule.

The actor was known for cult martial arts classics like The Street Fighter, as well as his role in Kill Bill. He died of complications from COVID-19.

Larry Elder, the Republican frontrunner in the race to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in the Sept. 14 recall election, said one of his first acts as governor would be to overturn mask mandates and vaccine requirements.

A patient with COVID-19 died on Wednesday while waiting for an intensive care unit bed at Mercy Health Hospital in Roseburg.

Conservation groups are suing the U.S. Forest Service over its plans to log hazard trees along hundreds of roads in the Willamette National Forest that burned in last year’s wildfires.

Larry Elder, the leading candidate to potentially replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in the recall election, cancels his appearance on Political Breakdown for the second straight week. Marisa and Scott call up Politico California senior writer Carla Marinucci and KQED politics reporter Katie Orr to discuss Carla’s story about Elder brandishing a gun at his ex-fiancée. … Continue reading Recall Election Preview and Talking About Larry Elder →