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White House calls racist recording of Los Angeles city council members "unacceptable" and "appalling."

Julie Emig, executive director of the McLean County Museum of History, was elected in 2019 to represent Ward 4 that includes parts of downtown and neighborhoods east of downtown.

People gathered in Chesapeake, Va., for a candlelight vigil Monday to honor the victims of the Walmart mass shooting. The shooter, a supervisor at Walmart, turned the gun on himself.

RhinoAg plans to merge its operations with a plant in Selma, Alabama by March 2025. In a statement, the company cited difficult market conditions in the ag equipment sector for the closure.

Jerome Treadwell and students from more than 100 schools across Minnesota held a walkout earlier this week to protest the death of Daunte Wright.

Fires burn in Baghdad as the U.S.-led bombardment of the city and nearby Republican Guard positions reportedly steps up in frequency. Inside the city, the infrastructure begins to degrade as telephones fail and supply shortages threaten. Yet, reporters in the city say Saddam's regime seems in complete control. Hear Paul Eedle.

The bombs fell on a military aviation repair facility only about 50 miles from the border of Poland, a NATO country.

Continuing a week-long series on problems common throughout Latin America, NPR's Martin Kaste reports on the prevalent black market economy in Caracas, Venezuela. Confronted with a shortage of jobs and economic hardship, many residents of the metropolitan capital area have resorted to joining the so-called "informal economy" in order to make ends meet.

In 2017, philanthropist Agnes Gund sold a $165-million dollar painting to create a fund to support formerly incarcerated artists. "No Justice Without Love" celebrates the grantee-artists.

Over the next few months, the city of New York plans to extend the citywide ban on smoking in public areas and places of employment to its jails. Linda talks with Tom Antenen, the deputy commissioner of the New York City Corrections Department, about the effect this will have on inmates at New York's Riker's Island facility, which houses some eighty percent of the city's prison population.