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Here's what U.S. adults say about President Biden's handling of the economy, their top economic concerns and how they feel about the coronavirus pandemic, based on a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll.

Henry Detweiller was a riverboat captain whose name is familiar to Peorians thanks to the street, park and marina named after him but there was more to his story than guiding steamships up and down the Illinois River.

Los Angeles Police bomb squad officers were in the process of seizing more than 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks at a home in South Los Angeles at the time of the explosion.

The justices, in a 6-3 opinion, narrowed the only major section of the landmark Voting Rights Act that remains in effect.

Bangladeshi soldiers are enforcing a seven-day lockdown. As the West opens up, poorer countries with low vaccination rates are being hit by wave after wave of COVID-19.

The Manhattan district attorney's office is expected to bring charges against former President Donald Trump's family business and its longtime chief financial officer on Thursday.

International search and rescue teams have joined the effort in Surfside. Among them is a team from the Israeli Defense Forces. NPR's Noel King talks to Lt. Col. Oz Gino, a leader of the IDF team.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is sending National Guard troops to Texas at the request of that state's governor. A private donation is funding the deployment. It's not clear that that's legal.

In the spirit of Independence Day, we meet the guild of bellringers that is still pulling the ropes at Boston's Old North Church. Just like Paul Revere did nearly 300 years ago.

While rescue crews continue the search for people in the condominium collapse in Florida, NPR is learning new details about concerns over the building before it partially collapsed last week.