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President Trump's efforts to send National Guard troops to U.S. cities have been repeatedly met with resistance in the courts — most recently, in Tennessee.

A new order from a federal judge says Los Angeles must provide shelter to all unhoused people living on Skid Row by the fall.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to David Rennie, Beijing bureau chief for The Economist, about the mass COVID-19 testing of millions of residents to contain the spread as a potential lockdown looms.

In the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv at least half a dozen hospitals have been damaged by Russian attacks. One had to close most of its departments and reduce operations to emergency cases.

Ukrainian officials said the work to evacuate civilians from two cities had halted amid shelling, just hours after Russia announced the deal.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey about residents protesting the Trump administration's ICE deployment and the killing of Renee Good by an immigration officer.

The head of the Bloomington-Normal Economic Development Council has submitted his resignation. Patrick Hoban led the EDC for six years. This opens the door to a broader discussion of the role of the EDC in the Twin Cities.

Scott Simon speaks to L.A.'s chief heat officer Marta Segura about the extreme heat wave in the U.S., and how cities and towns need to adapt to a future of excessively hot summers.

NPR reporters have been going home to see how their hometowns have changed. NPR's Richard Gonzales returns to Richmond, Calif., a blue collar city east of San Francisco seeing an exodus of African-Americans and the emergence of a new Latino community.

Riots in Baltimore broke out days after Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder. Segregation and economic tensions led to civil unrest. Those issues were still present in 2015 after the death of Freddie Gray.