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California leased hotel rooms for unhoused residents during the pandemic to move them out of crowded shelters. Then it bought some of those hotels to create long-term homes for them.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen tells NPR's Noel King that Congress should make permanent the expanded child tax credit payments that began arriving this week.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wants Congress to make the new child tax credit permanent. Haitian police hold the former head of President Moise's security. And, South Africa sees a violent week.

Saudi Arabin director Shahad Ameen's debut feature film is set in a dystopian fishing village and tells the lyrical story of a young woman struggling to find her place.

The Los Angeles Fire Department depends on help from amateur radio volunteers when fire threatens communications infrastructure. NPR looks at how ham radio operators are keeping residents safe.

Some legal experts argue that the profession needs to engage in deep soul-searching after serious abuses of ethics rules by attorneys in the Trump years.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the giant online retailer had to accept responsibility for the potentially unsafe products listed on its platform and recall them.

Critics say volunteering abroad does not always benefit local communities. The coronavirus travel bans have led to a different approach for volunteers who want to donate their services.

NY Times reporter Ivan Penn unpacks the debate over infrastructure: Do we fund huge wind and solar farms with new transmission lines, or go local, with rooftop solar panels, batteries and micro-grids?

Only about 42% of 18- to 24-year-olds are fully vaccinated. Eager to reach them, the White House is calling in pop stars and trying to spread the word on TikTok.