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Afghanistan is a mountainous land where mountain climbing is rare among men and virtually nonexistent among women. An American is now preparing young Afghan women to scale the country's highest peak.

Residents of the state of Maine are not used to extreme heat. We hear from a strawberry farm where owners are worried about crop damage, and a beach where people are heading to cool off this summer.

North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into waters off its eastern coast. That happened two days after claiming to have tested a missile that's newly developed.

Wildlife is threatened after a pipeline leaked oil off the Southern California coast. NPR's A Martínez talks to Michael Ziccardi of the Oiled Wildlife Care Network at UC Davis, about rescue efforts.

The omicron BA.2 variant spreads about 30% more easily and has caused surges in other countries. Its steady increase in the U.S. raises questions about the wisdom of rolling back COVID restrictions.

Renee Montagne talks to Joshua Dimina, an international refugee from the Republic of Congo that Morning Edition profiled last December. Dimina has learned that his family is safe and continues working towards his goal of practicing medicine in the U.S.

FEMA releases new federal advisories and recommendations about which areas of New Orleans are vulnerable to flooding in the future. The advisories will require that many houses be raised several feet to qualify for insurance. Residents plan to use the guide to decide whether to rebuild or relocate.

Turkey hosts the longest stretch of a new transnational pipeline that will carry oil from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean. Construction is nearly a year behind schedule and financial disagreements over the project may cause further delays.

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Bush set forth goals including more science and math teachers, more tax cuts and less dependence on oil from the Middle East. The president called on lawmakers to set aside divisiveness, but he also took the fight directly to his critics -- especially on his policies in Iraq.

The Russian military has announced it will focus its attacks on eastern Ukraine, rather than the across the country as it has been doing. But experts are skeptical that will happen.