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NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the NBA championship, WNBA legend Sue Bird's retirement and the host cities for the 2026 World Cup.

The Los Angeles mayor's race is turning into a single-issue election: What to do about the city's enormous homeless population? It's not clear either candidate could solve the problem.

Russia continued its assault on Ukraine for a second day in a row Tuesday, hitting infrastructure and other targets in cities across the country.

Steve Inskeep talks with Boston Globe columnist Juliette Kayyem about city officials' decision to lock down Boston on Friday as law enforcement searched for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. Kayyem is a former top homeland security official.

Green Bay, Wis., on Saturday hosts two top-tier European soccer teams: Manchester City and FC Bayern Munich — for the first soccer exhibition game on the Packers' Lambeau Field.

The draft of the strategic plan for Uptown South in Normal has a lot in it — a large footprint public building, housing, an Amtrak platform and so on. City Manager Pam Reece said you can fit quite a bit into those 7.5 acres south of the railroad tracks.

The effort to rescue a man under the rubble in the Turkish city of Antakya is just one story of thousands playing out in the vast path of the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria.

Longtime civil rights campaigners in Charleston, S.C., say the current public outcry over police racism isn't rooted in racist laws as much as it is in gentrification and a shifting population.

The practice of stop and frisk came up repeatedly in the first presidential debate. NPR takes a look at whether the assertions comport with the facts.

Lawmakers on the House oversight panel are turning their attention to crime and police reform in D.C.