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When the pandemic hit, states began leasing hotel rooms for unhoused residents. California went a step further and bought some of those hotels, opening nearly 6,000 new units for the homeless.

Crews continue to find the bodies of those who died during a recent condo collapse. There is another objective for those sifting through the rubble: collecting the property of the victims.

A Superior Court judge has cleared Britney Spears to hire her own lawyer in the battle over her conservatorship. She picked a prominent Hollywood lawyer and ex-federal prosecutor to take up her case.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Kaiser Health News correspondent Aneri Pattani about health officials' findings that there were more than 93,000 deaths from drug overdoses in 2020.

Robert Santos, one of the country's leading statisticians, could become the first person of color to lead the U.S. Census Bureau as a Senate-confirmed director.

Democrats have essentially no wiggle room if they want to pass their newly unveiled $3.5 trillion budget plan along party lines. And already some Democrats are voicing concerns.

One Facebook user jokingly put the total loss at $26. Another person joked that since the temperature hit 93 degrees that day, all you needed was a fork and butter for a ready meal.

Oakland, Calif., has named its first Poet Laureate. Dr. Ayodele Nzinga — also known as WordSlanger — will serve a two-year term aimed at making poetry more accessible to Oaklanders.

Rush has written over 400 songs and won his first Grammy at 83 years old for his album "Porcupine Meat."

Gov. Greg Abbott has reconvened the legislature after Texas House Democrats walked out to defeat a restrictive voting rights bill in May.