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Also in this week's roundup: the White House outlined its proposals on the Higher Education Act, and only 7 black students were admitted into one of New York's most selective high schools.

An Amazon spokeswoman told NPR that this decision is not reversible, and the company plans no further negotiations. The company will not search for a new HQ location.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with reporter Karen Yi of The Star-Ledger about the ongoing water crisis in Newark.

Ice cream thefts are up way up in New York City. Why would thieves steal something that depreciates so rapidly?

As West Coast cities have seen a boom in homelessness, some have declared emergencies. But debates have broken out over how much tolerance should be shown to illegal camps in public spaces.

Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine has a large Russian population, but opinion has turned against Russia since the Kemlin stirred up a separatist war in the nearby Donbas and is threatening invasion.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is placing all of downtown Detroit on its list of 11 most endangered historic sites in the country. The Trust says there are several historic sites in Detroit in danger from neglect. It's also concerned by city efforts to clean up before July's baseball All-Star Game and February's Super Bowl.

In a new memoir, Sampson Davis describes what it was like to return to the hospital where he was born to become an emergency physician. He says his mother taught him that "once you make it, you have to come back and help other people."

Israeli forces control the area around a desalination facility and a sewage treatment plant, and troops appear to be stationed in several schools in Gaza City.

It's the first significant drawdown of troops since the war began, and could signal that fighting is being scaled back in some areas. But the biggest city in southern Gaza still is fiercely contested.