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Local leaders report already-strapped police departments racked up overtime bills in the millions while others report a multi-million dollar hit to business during the worst ICE surges.

A network of families riddled with Alzheimer's has given scientists a unique window on the disease. But the group's future is uncertain amid funding cuts by the Trump Administration.

Early this morning, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced that the league and the players had reached a verbal agreement for a new contract.

A celebration of the life of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson will be held in Chicago Friday. Current and former elected officials, faith leaders, entertainers and more are expected to attend. A private funeral will be held Saturday.

Bernard LaFayette, who died Thursday, laid the foundations of the Selma, Alabama, campaign that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. He was a Freedom Rider and helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

The ceasefire, in effect for the past six months, has brought some reprieve to Palestinians in Gaza despite continued hardship, displacement and Israeli restrictions on aid.

On Monday Cuba was plunged into an island-wide blackout affecting 11 million people after a "complete disconnection" of its electrical system, officials said, amid a worsening fuel shortage.

Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of the country's most influential leaders, has died at 84. The founder and long-time leader of the Rainbow-Push Coalition ran for president twice and inspired millions.

President Trump's State of the Union speech was a mix of the president touting his first-year record, slamming Democrats and creating made-for-TV moments.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Tanya Bush about her new cookbook. She writes about a tumultuous year in her life filled with challenges and self discovery -- through baking.

Americans are skeptical of the U.S. involvement in the war with Iran, and President Trump was already facing political challenges at home.

NPR's Leila Fadel asks Emma Ashford, a senior fellow with the Stimson Center, about the lean foreign policy content in President Trump's State of the Union address.