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It's getting harder and harder to find an affordable house in Los Angeles: Just ask commentator Lori Gottlieb. When she put in an offer on a house, in addition to a hefty down payment, her realtor told her to write a letter to the seller, telling them why she was the best prospective buyer.

The Supreme Court hears a case on Tuesday that will decide whether local governments may force homeowners to sell their land so that private companies can redevelop the area. Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick joins NPR's Madeleine Brand to discuss the implications.

More than 5,000 people turn out to welcome home an Army National Guard unit that lost five members during a year-long tour of Iraq. Delivering supplies and mail around Baghdad, the unit, from Paris, Ill., drew more than 100 mortar attacks and came under enemy fire 60 times. The unit sustained injuries that earned soldiers 32 Purple Heart awards.

A towering new suspension bridge debuts in southern France. At its highest point, the Millau Viaduct is more than 1,000 feet above ground, and the French say it's the highest bridge in the world. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Millau's mayor, Jacques Godfrain.

Pentagon top adviser and one of the chief architects of the war in Iraq, Douglas Feith, resigns. Feith, a staunch neo-conservative with close ties to Israel, is a controversial figure, especially for his role in the use of intelligence to justify the war in Iraq.

While Iraq's Shiite majority has claimed the prime minister seat, the second leading political bloc -- the Kurds -- will likely gain the presidency. NPR's Ivan Watson spoke to the leading Kurdish candidate, Jalal Talabani, about the election and the presidential post.

Google plans to scan five vast library collections into its Internet search engine. The project will make available online the libraries of four universities -- Oxford, Harvard, Michigan, and Stanford -- as well as the books of the New York City Library no longer covered by copyright. Michael Leland of member station WUOM reports.

The Bush administration reportedly asks the Justice Department to find the source of a leak about a $9 billion item in the highly secret intelligence budget. The money may be intended for a stealth spy satellite. In remarks on the Senate floor last week, some Democrats criticized the project as money poorly spent. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

Thoughts on the life of boxer Max Schmeling, whose fights with Joe Louis became a symbol of a looming confrontation between the United States and Nazi Germany. Schmeling fought in Hitler's army, but quietly helped save two Jewish teens and later befriended a needy Louis. Schmeling has died at age 99.

Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire witnessed the killing and chaos of the Hutu/Tutsi conflict in Rwanda. Scott Simon talks to Dallaire about his experience, which is chronicled in his book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.

"White flight" has hit hard at nearly every major American city, but black middle-class flight has left cities like Detroit teetering on financial ruin. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is looking for ways to shoulder the burden while he works to revitalize the urban core. NPR's Ed Gordon speaks with Kilpatrick about his plans.

U.S Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan prosecuted Tommy Chong. We talk with her about Operation Pipe Dreams and how it applied to Chong, as well as the investigation that led to the charges against him.

The evolution of the anti-abortion coalition in the U.S. has long been a shared project of supremacist movements. Though they have shared a goal of overturning Roe, they have different agendas.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Kathy Gannon, who is retiring after 35 years of covering Afghanistan and Pakistan for The Associated Press, about the most significant moments from those years.

In an unprecedented move, the House select committee on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has issued subpoenas for five Congressional Republicans, including GOP leader Kevin McCarthy.

If Republicans win control in November, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is signaling that Congress could vote on further restrictions on abortion.

London police say they believe the July 7 transit attacks were the work of four suicide bombers. They identified four British men of Pakistani descent as chief suspects. The men traveled from Leeds to London and were seen on a King's Cross station security camera before the blasts.

For decades, Russia and other nations collaborated on scientific and environmental issues in the Arctic. Now, there's concern that Finland and Sweden joining NATO could spark a military buildup there.

The Supreme Court draft opinion leak has sparked debate over penalties for people who disclose this kind of private information. Daniel Ellsberg, who shared the Pentagon Papers, gives his perspective.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, while he's in California learning about cannabis laws with an eye to studying decriminalization of the substance in his city.

A patriarch of a family that was involved in an 11-day Idaho standoff with federal agents 30 years ago has died.

Researchers find 4.2 percent of soldiers injured in Iraq develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the first few months. But at the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., the rate is much lower.

David Johnson and Robert Watson have spent their lives on the Chesapeake Bay. In 27 years, they might have thought they had seen it all. Then, in late May, they pulled a half-male, half-female crab out of the water. David Johnson tells Liane Hansen about the rare find.

Voters in northern Lebanon went to the polls Sunday in the last round of the first elections since Syrian troops left the country. Host Jennifer Ludden talks with NPR's Eric Weiner, who is in Beirut, about who won and the challenges ahead for Lebanon.