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Last month, Philadelphia closed its homeless shelters to single adults. Linda talks with William Parshall, the Deputy Managing Director for Special Needs Housing for the City of Philadelphia, about the rationale behind the decision, and what this restriction has meant for the city and its homeless population.

- Daniel talks with Harry Jaffe, national editor of Washingtonian magazine about the financially troubled city of Washington, DC. Jaffe says that Congress has unfairly limited the city's ability to raise much needed revenue. He also says the level of incompetence in the local District government is severe.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from London where the city is bracing for more fuel price protests. Truck drivers and farmers across Britain are threatening to blockade the city if a cut in the fuel tax isn't announced.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Israeli city of Hebron, one of the areas most effected by the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In an effort to protect the city's Jewish settlers, the army has imposed a 24-hour-a-day curfew on its Palestinian citizens.

Millions of babies have been born in this year of the coronavirus crisis. We asked photojournalists to introduce us to some of the new arrivals — and share the hopes and fears of their parents.

After the fall of the Taliban, California teen Said Hyder Akbar returned to the home country he'd never known: Afghanistan. His audio diaries of summer trips there form the basis of his book, Come Back to Afghanistan.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Steven Reed, the first Black mayor of Montgomery, Ala.

Thirty years after the Berlin Wall fell, Hoyerswerda is struggling to thrive, a far-right party has gained popularity and many residents worry about the future when Germany phases out coal.

A proposed multimillion-dollar update of Grossinger Motors Arena and Bloomington Ice Center heating and cooling systems took a step forward Monday, with the Bloomington City Council authorizing engineers to ready the paperwork for the bidding process.

While scores lie in hospitals with wounds received in the Paris terror attacks, the relatives of other victims look for the bodies of loved ones in a morgue on the River Seine.