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An obsession with making the world's largest golden egg brought down one family's storied jewelry business. NPR's Don Gonyea talks with Serena Kutchinsky about her memoir, "Kutchinsky's Egg."

After a two-year pilot, the San Francisco Unified School District seems to have come up with a plan for bringing Algebra 1 back to eighth grade.

The House voted to approve a stop-gap bill to fund DHS through May 22, Late Friday. This came after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called the earlier Senate vote to fund much of DHS "a joke."

Meyers, who died March 7, helped shape Tex-Mex music with the '60s band Sir Douglas Quintet and then with the Texas Tornados. His signature sound was on the vox organ. Originally broadcast in 1990.

There's a big national competition in Atlanta this week in puzzling. Teams will race to put jigsaw pieces into place, assembling 500 and 1,000 piece puzzles they've never seen.

NPR's Scott Simon and sports reporter Michele Steele talk men and women's March madness.

The race to become San Francisco’s next District 8 Supervisor heated up this weekend as Gary McCoy launched his field campaign at the IBEW Meeting Hall in Duboce Triangle.

It's an extraordinary move that came as senators were reviewing a "last and final" offer to end the funding impasse that has jammed airports and disrupted travel, just as TSA workers faced another missed paycheck Friday.

Woods was arrested on suspicion of DUI after he struck another vehicle and rolled his Land Rover, not far from where he lives on Jupiter Island, Florida. The sheriff's office said he was not injured.

A Senate bill to end the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security is facing stiff resistance in the House, leaving funding for the agency in doubt.

In her own words, we hear from a young Palestinian woman from Paterson, N.J., who was released from ICE detention in Texas. She had been held for over a year.

Mayors of major cities across California urged the governor and state lawmakers to continue financing homelessness services amid looming budget cuts.