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The Census Bureau is looking for temporary workers to carry out next year's major field test of the 2030 census in six states, as the national head count's advocates raise concerns about preparations.

Councilmember Gina Driscoll apologized for a “Bermuda Triangle of bureaucracy.”

With many teachers out sick with COVID-19, schools are scrambling to find substitute teachers. Texas schools are having to get creative so that students can continue going to in-person classes.

No '60s pop composer wrote more sophisticated songs than Bacharach, who died Feb. 8. Dozens of his best songs endure for all the right reasons; they're inventive, challenging and linger in your ear.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author writes about his relationship with his father, as well as his own experiences as the parent of four, in Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with a restaurant owner and worker on how the omicron variant and latest surge of COVID cases are once again disrupting their industry.

A new film profiles influential chef Jeremiah Tower. When one of the most hated men in U.S. politics walked in for dinner at Berkeley's famed Chez Panisse, where Tower worked, a colorful scene ensued.

At last check, thousands of people in Pinellas County still didn't have electricity.

For community groups to allege violations of environmental rules, a state law says groups have to use federally-approved testing equipment, and it sets restrictions for analyzing and sharing the data.

As San Francisco prepares to mark the centennial of the 1906 earthquake and fire, historians recall how Chinatown, destroyed along with much of the city, almost wasn't rebuilt.

Bill Gossett, 97, left college to serve in WWII. He didn't go back until his 90s. In 2020 he finished an Associate of Arts degree, but had to wait a year for the ceremony because of the pandemic.

A new law will mandate more living space for pigs, chickens and veal calves. Egg and veal producers say they'll comply. Most pork producers in Iowa, say they can't. They may lose California's market.

So fire, as the slang term goes, that the fire department got a call. But the house wasn't burning down, it was a fire illusion made by two LED lights, a box fan, silver sheets and a fog machine.

Trump's nominee to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins, answered questions about proposed spending cuts, staff shortages and whether the VA would continue to provide abortions.

The Biden administration is set to announce plans to give cluster munitions to Ukraine. A drug shown to slow Alzheimer's gets approval. Progressive Democrats urge President Biden to move faster.

To close the vaccination gap among Latinos in Colorado, health workers are bringing the shot to neighborhoods and soccer games, and drawing on trusted networks of friends and family.

There is a split-screen of media coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. Israeli channels focus on the Oct. 7 attack, the soldiers and the hostages, while Palestinian media highlights daily suffering.

A Pakistani brewery founded in the 19th century is exporting beer again for the first time in decades, despite alcohol being illegal for the country's Muslim majority.

From elephants to otters to armadillos, all sorts of animals get a kick out stomping, rolling and eating the orange gourds.

As a hospice volunteer, listener Mary Cook shares in the grief of others. But it was her own loss that taught her how to heal. She believes that recovering from grief requires not a battle, but surrender.

Judges for NPR Music's Tiny Desk Contest watched thousands of videos, and here on Weekend Edition we're highlighting some of the standouts — this week: C.J. Johnson from Oh He Dead.

Emergency aid has streamed into Southeast Asia in the two days since a massive earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand.

Hamas has responded to a U.S. ceasefire proposal in Gaza that includes the release of around half of its remaining living hostages.

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937.

The war between the US, Israel and Iran is intensifying. NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with Yossi Melman, who reports on Israeli intelligence, about the state of the conflict as it enters its fourth week.