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California Enacts New Measures To Handle Housing Shortage

NPR's Lulu Garcia Navarro speaks with Conor Dougherty, an economics reporter at The New York Times, about what a series of new measures mean for California's housing crisis.

Migrants stand in line at a respite center in June after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and turned themselves in and were released in Del Rio, Texas.

In Texas, Officials Are Reporting A Surge Of Migrants At The Southern Border This Week

Texas officials call it a "historic surge." Thousands of new arrivals, largely from Haiti, are straining an already overstretched system, and more are on the way.

Lynn Wencus sits on a bench in her backyard dedicated to her son Jeff, whom she lost to an opioid overdose in 2017. She is one of many people filing an individual claim in the Purdue Pharma settlement.

The Purdue Pharma Deal Would Deliver Billions, But Individual Payouts Will Be Small

People who were addicted to OxyContin or lost loved ones who were addicted to the drug expect very little in compensation from the multibillion-dollar Purdue Pharma bankruptcy settlement.

A Facebook whistleblower alleges that her former employer contributed to the deadly Jan. 6 riot when it prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and rabble rousing.

Ex-Facebook manager alleges the social network fed the Capitol riot

The whistleblower, Frances Haugen, asserted in an interview with 60 Minutes that Facebook repeatedly made decisions that benefited the company's own interests at the expense of protecting the public.

A floating barrier known as booms is set up to try to stop further incursion into the Wetlands Talbert Marsh after an oil spill in Huntington Beach, Calif., last week.

Ship's anchor may have caused massive oil spill off the coast of Southern California

The torn underwater pipeline spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the ocean, according to federal investigators.

Reginald F. Davis, from left, pastor of First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Connie Matthews Harshaw, a member of First Baptist, and Jack Gary, Colonial Williamsburg's director of archaeology, stand at the brick-and-mortar foundation of one the oldest Black churches in the U.S. on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, in Williamsburg, Va.

The remnants of one of the nation's oldest Black churches have just been found

The discovery of the First Baptist Church in Colonial WIlliamsburg comes as the living history museum is reckoning with its storytelling about the country's origins and the role of Black Americans.

Andrew McCabe, shown here in 2017, was fired in 2018 by the Trump administration hours before his retirement.

Fired FBI official Andrew McCabe wins retirement benefits and back pay in settlement

The Trump administration fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on the eve of his retirement in 2018. McCabe then sued over his termination.

In federal lawsuits, parents in Wisconsin are blaming school districts for COVID-19 infections, saying they should not have ended mask requirements during a pandemic. Here, a student in Michigan is seen arriving at school in late August.

A Wisconsin brewery is helping parents sue school districts that don't require masks

A school board "threw students into a COVID-19 'snake pit' " when it axed mask requirements and other measures, a federal lawsuit says. A Minocqua, Wis., brewery is helping fund parents' legal fight.

Black and Latino families are bearing the weight of the pandemic's economic toll

Even with government assistance and other efforts, more than 55% of Black and Latino households reported serious financial problems, compared with 29% of white households.

Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys, holds a U.S. flag during a July protest in Miami as part of a show of solidarity for Cubans who were demonstrating against their government in Cuba.

After Arrests And Setbacks, Far-Right Proud Boys Press New Ambitions

One year ago Donald Trump infamously said of the far-right Proud Boys, "stand back and stand by." Some members are now in jail, but the once-fringe group hasn't gone away.

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