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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Christian McBride, host of Jazz Night in America about the life of George Wein, who founded the Newport Jazz Festival.

After a volunteer collected more than 200 dead migratory birds from the sidewalks around the World Trade Center, bird groups in the city called on the complex to dim unnecessary lights at night.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Spencer Woodman, reporter at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which led an investigation into offshore banking dubbed the Pandora Papers.

Initiative would use ARPA funds to boost city's housing stock

Heavy rain continues to fall in China's Henan province, causing the worst flooding in recorded history. So far, the government says 25 people have died and around 100,000 have been evacuated.

Frustrated with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, gun control advocates have been focusing on changing state laws in recent years. It's a model similar to what worked for marriage equality in America.

Oregon passed a law to become the first state in the country to institute rent control statewide. Progressives love the idea, but housing advocates say it won't solve the housing affordability crisis.

The Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon has been without clean drinking water for years, the just-passed infrastructure bill promises to fix that.

Representatives for five seats on the currently all-Democratic Schenectady City Council will be chosen on Election Day.

Family members says they're happy about the guilty verdict for the former police officer, who fatally shot Wright in April. But they say it's not true justice.