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Western cities dealing with an explosion of homelessness are urging the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that sharply limits camping bans in parks and other public places.

Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis have written a portrait of the city that saw John F. Kennedy's death firsthand. In those years, they say, Dallas was a roiling stew of superpatriotism and Communist paranoia — and, above all, distrust of the president.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Charles Dickerson, founder and conductor of The Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, and cellist Hanna Innis about fostering diversity in orchestras.

WGLT talks to Bloomington's mayor about city planning surrounding water quality and supply, a lawsuit involving Bloomington police, and a recap of a busy summer activity season.

Li Zhining did it with 700,000 LEGOs. He spent a year building the 13-foot-long model. There are more than 70 palaces, the moat and the turrets of the ancient, walled district in China's capital.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports from Goma, Zaire that shelling forced the suspension of the first attempt to deliver aid to the city today. Relief groups stopped passing out food after four shells slammed into the city. The shells presumably were fired by Rwandan Hutu rebels holed up in a refugee camp outside Goma. The attack came after Zairean Tutsi rebels--who control Goma--fired on an unidentified plane which flew over the city. The incidents underline how hard it will be to organize a massive aid effort for the one million mostly Rwandan refugees stranded by the recent fighting in eastern Zaire.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, in a tight runoff race with the state's current lieutenant governor to keep his post, vowed the city will be ready for the coming hurricane season and rebuffed claims that he was an ineffective leader as the storm ravaged the city last August.

Two shootings wounded five people in the city this past weekend. A curfew will go into effect late this week requiring that people be off the streets between midnight and 6 a.m.

David Hondula will be charged with lowering urban temperatures to avoid heat-related deaths, which have soared to new records in recent years.

The Eagles and the Chiefs won their respective conference championships Sunday. Super Bowl LVII will be played Feb. 12 in Arizona.