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Nearly 1,000 women from around the country flew to New York City to audition for the dance troupe on its 100th anniversary. What's helped it last so long?

NPR speaks with Democratic Congressman Mike Quigley of Illinois as 500 National Guard troops prepare to touch down in Chicago against the wishes of state and city officials.

The White House directive calls for prioritizing money for programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.

Israeli forces are telling Gaza City doctors to move their clinics south ahead of a massive attack.

In 2008, Chicago's mayor decided to lease out the city's metered parking system — to privatize all 36,000 of its parking meters.

There have been several incidents of ICE agents fatally shooting or injuring people in U.S. cities. After a shooting in Portland on Thursday, city officials there called it a "pattern of violence."

New Yorker writer Jane Mayer reports on conditions at a Delaware poultry processing plant owned by a major Trump donor: "No matter what's going on, they've got to keep those chicken lines running."

A sound montage of a few prominent voices in this past week's ews, including President Clinton on his budget plan; Senator Robert Dole (R-KS) nd Senator Tom Daschle (D-ND) responding to the President's budget address; enator Alan Simpson (R-WY) criticizing the American Association of Retired ersons; Executive Director of the AARP Horace Dietz defending the association; op performer Michael Jackson; the victory of the Houston Rockets basketball eam; and International Olympics Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch nnouncing Salt Lake City, Utah as the chosen host city for the 2002 winter lympics.

The smaller-than-normal crowds at Mardi Gras this week symbolize the lingering impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans' economy. The city's hotels are struggling to recover, but a shortage of workers is hampering their comeback.

Protests against proposed changes to immigration law take place in Washington, D.C., and other cities. A march to the National Mall is among the largest. Michele Norris spoke with demonstrators as they boarded buses in Maryland, headed for Washington.