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McLean County Board Chair Elizabeth Johnston said she disagrees, in part, with Twin City mayors Dan Brady and Chris Koos who have criticized the performance of the Bloomington-Normal Economic Development Council. Johnston said she thinks the EDC has delivered a lot of bang for the buck.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with The Athletic's James L. Edwards, about the economic incentives that have led New York Knicks fans to travel en masse to away games.

Israeli forces are battling Hamas on the streets of Gaza City, with fighting around the main Al-Shifa hospital. Hundreds of patients and hospital staff are still inside, where electricity has run out.

When the governor of Texas started busing migrants elsewhere in 2023, the border crisis arrived in places like Chicago, which has to provide housing for the thousands of mostly Venezuelan migrants.

More than 100 Russian missiles and drones fell on Ukrainian cities Friday morning, killing at least 16 people and wounding at more than 160.

Kitty lovers started a petition to reclassify cats as necessary to tackle rodents at New York City bodegas.

People in LA continue to protest ICE immigration raids. President Trump is now sending in 700 U.S. Marines and an additional 2,000 National Guard. State officials call it an unnecessary escalation.

A month-long moot court program in New York City lets students prosecute — and defend — cases, offering real-world lessons in how government works.

Water and sewer are the most basic things a city typically provides. Through a complicated cluster of circumstances, neither of those services is dependable in a subdivision on the east side of Bloomington. And it's not at all clear how that will change.

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with two residents of a housing complex in Shanghai about how they have experienced the city's lockdown — which is approaching its sixth week.