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Rachel Martin speaks with Stephen Seche, former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen about the decision to close down the U.S. embassy in Sana'a and how that could affect U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Yemen.

Deb Haaland announced an investigation into former residential schools for Native Americans — like the Stewart Indian School in Nevada that operated from 1890 to 1980.

The CDC has revised guidance for schools for fall 2021. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten about the latest recommendations for in-person learning.

U.N. diplomats had hoped several thousand French troops would join the new peacekeeping force in Lebanon. To their disappointment, President Jacques Chirac announces that France will add only 200 troops to its 200 peacekeepers who are already part of the U.N. force in Lebanon. Diplomats fear that France's decision will have a chilling effect on the effort to put a robust force in place.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Yulia Gorbunova, a researcher with Humans Rights Watch, about her reporting of alleged human rights violations in Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with acting coordinator for Global COVID-19 Response and Health Security, Mary Beth Goodman, about the U.S. shipping 500 million COVID vaccine doses to more than 100 countries.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist John Cannon about the dangers of destroying a hidden peatland in the Congo Basin that has locked in as much carbon dioxide as the world emits in three years.

President Trump announced that he ordered airstrikes on a Syrian air base after a chemical attack. Retired Lt. Gen David Deptula tells Rachel Martin about the military options President Trump has now.

NPR reporters have uncovered some of the tensions within the Biden administration as the U.S. responded to Israel's war in Gaza.

Rosemary Mariner, the first American female military aviator to command an air squadron, has died at the age of 65. Steve Inskeep remembers Mariner's life with her friend and pilot Tammie Jo Shults.