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The NAACP is threatening legal action to block a Nebraska law that divides Omaha's public schools into three separate districts, organized along racial lines.

Tiny homes for the unhoused have become a big business for one startup. Pallet has built 82 villages. But the success of the for-profit company raises questions about making money off of homelessness.

Missiles hit the environs of Kyiv, as Russia prepares for a renewed assault on eastern and southeastern Ukraine.

After the latest London bombings, New York City police began random searches of packages and backpacks brought onto the subway. Police promised "a systematized approach" that would avoid racial profiling. No one could recall a precedent for such broad searches, however, and civil libertarians questioned their legality. Richard Hake of NPR station WNYC reports.

The 20th Winter Olympics opens Friday in the Italian city of Turin. Over the next two weeks, 2,600 athletes will be competing before 1 million spectators. First lady Laura Bush will attend the opening ceremony, along with numerous other international dignitaries.

After the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, Washington sent a team of researchers to interview eyewitnesses. Only one interview was conducted in English. A Russian woman living near the destroyed city tells her tale of seeing people caught by the blast. Hear a part of her story.

Almost a year after Hurricane Ida killed 11 residents of mostly-unregulated basement apartments in Queens, advocates say the city and state haven't done enough to make that type of housing safer.

Hong Kong kept the pandemic mostly in check for two years, but now the territory is struggling with a wave of COVID-19 cases that's testing the government's ability to react.

Ukraine's president has condemned a Russian strike on a maternity and children's hospital in the southern port city of Mariupol. He called it a "war crime" and attempted "genocide."

The Black Fire Brigade is an outside group whose mission is to boost the ranks of Black firefighters in Chicago. It recruits, trains and mentors men and women in minority communities.