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The leaders' breakthrough comes after weeks of negotiations and a series of on-and-off talks. The U.S. is set to run out of money to pay its loans on June 5 if a deal is not approved by Congress.

There's a Republican effort to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson, but Democrats plan to protect him. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with House Democratic Minority Whip Katherine Clark of Massachusetts.

A group of advocates in Louisville took over an abandoned motel and turned it into a no barrier homeless shelter. It's an approach some say is really needed.

85% of Americans say it's a "bad time" to buy a house. So who's still buying in the current market? An annual survey from the National Association of Realtors offers some insight.

Federal workers, many already furloughed, may now face unemployment as the White House uses them as leverage in negotiations to end the federal government shutdown.

Can you call it hot housing karma? It’s the mojo that comes around when you sell a house well over asking after struggling to find a house somewhere else within your price range in this crazy real estate market.

With Pennsylvania in Joe Biden's column, the former vice president gains the 270 electoral votes needed to be elected.

A powerful House subcommittee has voted to kill a program that helps poor people with AIDS pay for housing. NPR's Vicky Que examines the Republican rationale for the vote, as well as warnings from AIDS activists that the measure is likely to throw thousands of infected people into shelters, increasing the danger of tuberculosis in those facilities.

NPR's White House correspondent Mara Liasson reports on the White House announcement today that First Lady Hillary Clinton will respond in writing, as she has in the past, to questions from the Senate Whitewater committee. She has also been subpoened to testify before a grand jury investigating the Whitewater affair.

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports that the Harold Ickes, top political operative at the White House, testified today before the Senate Whitewater Committee. Republicans questioned his credibility and hinted that the White House is deliberately delaying release of requested documents. The committee is continuing hearings on the Clinton administration's response in early 1994 to investigations into the Clintons' real estate dealings in Arkansas.