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Jim O'Grady of member station WNYC visits with a man who lost his home on Staten Island to Hurricane Sandy. He now has no place to live, and when he can't find a place he's been sleeping in his car.

The push for generational change in the Democratic Party faces a test in a Chicago-area congressional district, where the top candidates span three generations: from Gen X and millennials to Gen Z.

Holiday music rules the pop charts once again this week, as Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" scores its 17th nonconsecutive week at No. 1 — the third longest run of all time.

In a prequel to Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, director Paul King crafts a musical origin story of Willy Wonka, played by an exuberant Timothée Chalamet.

The president met with survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre as the nation pauses to mark the anniversary of an attack that remains one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history.

Once upon a time, a man falls head over heels for a stunning but mysterious woman. She agrees to marry him on one condition, that he never ask her about her past.

No neighborhood was hit worse in Katrina than New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward and it's been one of the slowest areas to rebound. There's still an effort to attract new residents and businesses there.

A rare, long-track tornado left a trail of devastation — tearing buildings and leaving thousands without power. The tornado spanned roughly 170 miles and lasted over an hour, a NWS meteorologist said.

What this means, according to researchers, is that students who may have opted to transfer in previous years have instead stayed put at their schools or withdrawn altogether.

Schools are struggling to stay open in the omicron wave. Teachers say they're scrambling, again, to try to help students and still protect their own mental and physical health.

After years on the brink, the bookseller is going for a plot twist: Sales are growing and the chain plans to open some 30 new stores. Here's what's changed.

The Obamas took center stage at the dedication of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, sharing messages of hope and subtle comments about the future of democracy and American ideals.

Now that the world's most famous Catholic is an American from Chicago, some hope Pope Leo XIV will help bring new energy to a church that's been on the steady decline there.

The internationally-renowned show exploring the percussive possibilities of the human body and everyday objects ends Jan. 8.

A court ordered the release of women and children held in immigrant detention centers in favor of electronic monitoring. The GEO Group operates both. Advocates say that's a conflict of interest.

NPR's Melissa Block talks to Sarah Kliff, Vox senior policy correspondent, to fact check Trump's claim that subsidies for insurance companies are "bailouts" and "a windfall" for those companies.

The chief executive of British Petroleum says concern over the stability of the world's oil supply is overblown. "I do worry that people worry too much and that we could potentially be overdoing the anxiety," Lord John Browne says.

"I can't wait to continue the tradition of spinning the wheel and working alongside the great Vanna White," Ryan Seacrest said.

"I just EGOT!" the 57-year-old actor said after winning best audiobook, narration and storytelling recording for her memoir, Finding Me, at the Grammys premiere ceremony on Sunday.

There is perhaps no time that belief is more emphatically tested, and acted upon, than in war. For this Veterans Day, five essayists who served in battle from World War I through the Iraq war describe how the violence of combat shaped their beliefs.

Louis Freedberg reports that South Africa's government is trying to deal with a crush of illegal immigrants flooding into the country from all over Africa.

President Biden is reportedly ready to announce his reelection bid.

The Internet is a happy accident of the 20th century. But law professor Jonathan Zittrain wonders whether the net can survive in a culture of freedom and innovation.

The author of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War notes that the Pilgrims encountered Native Americans — and stole their corn — before reaching Plymouth Harbor.

Variations of "worms" that attack a critical loophole in Microsoft Windows 2000 forced short-term shutdowns at CNN, ABC and the New York Times on Tuesday. The worms spread not by e-mail, but through the Internet.