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Most of Oregon is under an air quality advisory between now through at least noon, Monday. Dylan Darling of the state Department of Environmental Quality…

Fires continue to burn across Northern California and Oregon, sending smoke and other pollutants skyward. An air quality advisory has been placed on eight…

In one of his frequent NPR essays, Walter Cronkite remembers the day President Kennedy was assassinated, 39 years ago today. National Archive recordings of ground-to-air communications with Kennedy's cabinet and Air Force One shed new light on the crisis. Listen to the recordings, and samples of broadcasts Cronkite made on Nov. 22, 1963.

Fresh Air went national in 1987, and we're celebrating that 20th anniversary by revisiting some classic interviews. In this segment: German jazz artist Marty Grosz plays the music of Fats Waller. Rebroadcast from June 26, 1987.

There’s good news and bad news about Lane County’s Air Quality from a recent American Lung Association report. The area gets an “A” for its low ozone…

Poitier, an actor who helped open doors for other Black actors, spoke to Fresh Air in 2000. Kidman says being an indoor kid and a bookworm led her to acting. She co-stars in Being the Ricardos.

Oh discusses her roles in The Chair and Killing Eve. Justin Chang reviews Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. We listen back to Fresh Air's 1999 interview with Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin.

The air has improved in the LA region as firefighters get blazes under control, but there are questions about how safe the air actually is.

Last week's surface-to-air missile attacks on an Israeli passenger jet sparks fears over potential future attacks against civilian aircraft. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with defense analyst Chris Hellman.

Almost the entire population of India is being exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to guidelines set by the World Health Organization.