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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ashley Allison, the new owner of the online media outlet "The Root," which focuses on covering Black news and opinion.

Understaffing at air traffic control towers has affected flights this week. But the The National Air Traffic Controllers Association president says worker shortages are nothing new.

Home Sweet Home Ministries wants to build a shelter village — tiny sleeping cabins surrounding a community building — on a site near the nonprofit’s Bloomington facility.

The City of Bloomington has announced two forums have been scheduled to collect public input on a proposed cabin village to serve the unhoused. The forums are scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday, May 2 and 7 p.m. Monday, May 5 at the Bloomington Public Library Community Room 1.

Jeanette Barrett, a former and longtime McLean County clerk, has died at age 99. Barrett served as county clerk for 21 years and retired in 1998.

But with an ongoing drought gripping the West, Don McMillan's work is an essential part of providing water to millions of people in Central Arizona.

The price of gold hit $4,000 per ounce for the first time ever. It's a bad sign for the U.S. economy

In sub-Saharan Africa, a child under five dies nearly every minute from malaria. But new research suggests baby wraps treated with insect repellant can protect them.

The government shutdown is entering its second week, and there's no end in sight as both parties continue to refuse to give in to the other's demands.

Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, has a plan for how to avoid shutdown showdown negotiations, but it wouldn't be popular with Congress' "uniparty," he told NPR.