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A truck drives along Interstate 335 during a winter storm, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, near Luther, Okla.

Much of U.S. faces subzero temperatures, snow and high winds in coming days

In some parts of the Plains region, the National Weather Service expects temperatures to reach as low as the negative 20s and 30s.

Scott Bessent, the Treasury Secretary, has been tapped by President Trump to be acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Bessent is seen here at the Capitol in Washington last month.

Treasury Secretary Bessent, tapped to run CFPB, orders staff to halt work

The staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was instructed by email to cease much of its work. Bessent, a wealthy Wall Street investor, replaces Rohit Chopra, who was fired on Saturday.

Even in extreme winds and intense heat, some homes remain standing. Fire experts are finding there's a lot homeowners can do to increase the chances a house survives.

Some Los Angeles homes made it through the firestorm. Here's how

Houses are still standing in the burn zone in Los Angeles, ones that made it through the fires. Experts on the ground are finding those homeowners made some key preparations.

Timbaland's AI music project is a ghost in a misguided machine

The super-producer whose beats moved the boundaries of Top 40 radio is chasing a new revolution: digital superstars and the erasure of artistic process as we know it.

Jake, a homeless man, sits next to his tent on Eighth Ave between E and F street next to the post office in downtown San Diego, January 11, 2023.

Homeless weather shelters activated for New Year's Eve

The Inclement Weather Shelter Program for homeless San Diegans was activated Tuesday by the San Diego Housing Commission in partnership with the city of San Diego.

A man walks past a homeless encampment in downtown Los Angeles, Oct. 25, 2023.

Gov. Gavin Newsom urges California cities and counties to ban homeless encampments

Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging California’s local governments to begin clearing homeless encampments, escalating the state’s efforts to ban makeshift camps that line streets up and down the state.

California lawmakers are proposing regulations to protect people and society from the unintended consequences of artificial intelligence. By contrast, the Trump administration wants to avoid excessive regulation.

California has 30 new proposals to rein in AI. Trump could complicate them

President Trump is taking a very different approach to AI than the Biden administration, and it could affect how California regulates artificial intelligence.

2 mothers bring the House to a halt over push to allow proxy voting for new parents

GOP leaders tried to block a bipartisan measure to allow proxy voting, but nine Republicans joined with Democrats to overcome it.

Who George Floyd was — and how systemic racism shaped his life

Five years after George Floyd's death, NPR's Michel Martin talks with Toluse Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels, the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of His Name is George Floyd.

The Fearless Fund, an Atlanta-based venture capital firm, will shutter its grant program for Black women as part of a settlement, ending a year-long affirmative action battle. Here, co-founders and CEOs of The Fearless Fund Arian Simone (center left) and Ayana Parsons (center right) speak to journalists outside federal court in Miami on Jan. 31.

How pushback against DEI impacts businesses owned by women of color

On Midday Edition Tuesday, we’re talking about the ongoing legal challenges to diversity, equity and inclusion.

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