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Mayor Bill De Blasio believes the move will send a powerful message about the city's recovery.

The Transportation Security Administration quietly announced a hiring and overtime freeze through late April. Agency watchdogs and travel businesses worry it will create long lines at airports.

Jack Welch, one of the United States' best-known CEOs, has died. Welch ran General Electric for two decades and built the company into one of the world's most valuable corporations. He was 84.

James Lipton was best known as the host of Inside the Actors Studio, an in-depth interview show with top performers on Bravo. Lipton died Monday of bladder cancer. He was 93.

The ink has barely dried on the deal the U.S. and the Taliban signed this weekend and already questions are being asked about it. The sticking point appears to be a prisoner swap.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, on the federal health response to COVID-19.

Experienced bakers share some bread-making tips with the apparently many people taking up the hobby while staying at home.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with cookbook author and chef Najmieh Batmanglij about the central Asian winter solstice celebrations known as Yalda night.

Holiday joy is in short supply, but Julia Mattison and Joel Waggoner have created a social media advent calendar of silly carols to lighten up a dark season. They talk with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

Amid bipartisan pushback on the administration's policy shift in the Mideast the State Department's special envoy for Syria faces tough questions from senators on the decision to pull those troops.