The county received a total of $56.9 million in American Rescue Plan Act money from the federal government.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized ongoing campus protests across the U.S. as antisemitic. The Vermont senator said it was an attempt to "deflect attention" from Israel's actions.
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Moving can be very stressful. NPR's Life Kit talks with experts about ways to overcome some of that stress by making friends in a new place.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with author Emily Oster about her new book The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications.
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NPR Music's Robin Hilton talks to Scott Detrow about Iron & Wine's first solo album in seven years.
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Widad Kawar, 94, started collecting Palestinian dresses when she was a child in Jerusalem and founded a museum dedicated to Palestinian embroidery. She talks about what has been lost and what endures.
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NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss how Reggie Bush got his Heisman Trophy back, and the newest star in Chicago sports.
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Protests against the war in Israel are sweeping campuses and show no signs of letting up. We hear from the demonstrators on what they hope to achieve and how university administrators are responding.
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We look at the Grand Jury indictments in Arizona, focusing on former President Donald Trump's inner circle, and President Biden and the latest round of military aid to Israel in the wake of protests.
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NPR's Scott Simon muses about the passage of parental time, now that his eldest daughter has turned 21.
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Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified this week about his role in helping the 2016 Trump campaign by burying potentially damaging stories of then candidate Donald Trump.
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On this week's StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, Marine Staff Sergeant Nick Bennett talks about his desire to be deployed to the field after running the internet cafe on base.
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The Oklahoma Legislature passed a bill that would allow local law enforcement to arrest undocumented immigrants — joining other states attempting to take on what's been a federal role.
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Three decades since the first democratic election in South Africa, will the generation that has never known apartheid turn out to vote, or has politics left many of them too disillusioned?
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to screenwriter Paul Laverty, whose latest collaboration with director Ken Loach is a film titled "The Old Oak."