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Attacks on Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders have surged over the last year in large part due to racist messaging around China and Asia as the source of COVID-19.

The ban was previously overturned in some areas by Austin's city council in 2019, but it's going to be reinstated next week after 57% of voters over the weekend approved Proposition B.

State Farm intends to hire 1,500 claims workers across the U.S., including in the Twin Cities, in the coming months.

The Antonov An-26 plane missed a scheduled communication earlier Tuesday and disappeared from radar when flying from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the town of Palana, officials said.

Ricardo Fonseca plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Asma Khalid

It's tough getting 12 musicians to agree on anything. But the members of the Richmond, Va. ensemble are firm in the desire to represent their own city in their music.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on French chef Alain Ducasse and his new restaurant, where every detail counts. Ducasse is the only chef to earn a three-star rating at two different establishments, so New York gourmets have been eagerly awaiting the opening of Alain Ducasse at the Essex House. It's the city's most expensive restaurant where one meal averages about one hundred and sixty dollars. And it limits its number of customers with just two lunches per week, dinner Monday through Friday, and just one seating per meal.

For Doré's special challenge, we read quotes from famous people, and she must guess if they're about Paris, or New York City.

NPR'S Melissa Block reports on the testimony of Bernhard Goetz (Bur-NAHRD Getz) in his civil trial in New York City. Goetz is being sued for 50 million dollars by one of the four youths he shot on a subway car in 1984. The youth, Darrell Cabey, was paralyzed and suffered brain damage as a result of the shooting. Goetz was acquitted of attempted murder and assault in his CRIMINAL trial. In his testimony, Goetz said he shot the four youths when one of them asked him for 5 dollars; that he "snapped" when he saw the smile on the face of one of his victims. And he confirmed statements he's made in interviews, that the shooting was in some ways a "public service" and that the mothers of the victims should have had abortions.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Kigali that Zairean Tutsi rebels today declared a unilateral three-week ceasefire. The guerrillas say the truce is designed to give more than one million Rwandan Hutu refugees in Zaire a chance to go home. In the past two weeks, the rebels have captured all of the main cities along Zaire's border with Burundi and Rwanda, and foreign relief agencies have evacuated their staffs. There is little hope the refugees will return to Tutsi-controlled Rwanda, and relief groups say shortages of food and medicine could soon lead to mass starvation and epidemics among the refugees.