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January flood victim Robert Villa talks to media during the class action lawsuit announcement at the National Black Contractors Association building in the Encanto neighborhood of San Diego, CA on May 30, 2024.

January flood victims announce class action lawsuit against city of San Diego

About 100 San Diegans are part of a class action lawsuit against the city, alleging its “utter failure” to maintain Chollas Creek flood control infrastructure.

Donald Trump's big get-out-the-vote strategy in Arizona and Georgia? Donald Trump

Georgia and Arizona, two Sunbelt states Donald Trump narrowly lost in 2020, are seen as crucial in 2024. Republicans there seek to turn MAGA enthusiasm into votes through unconventional campaigning.

Warehouses in California can get dangerously hot. The state just passed a rule protecting people who work indoors in industries like warehousing, restaurants or manufacturing from excessive heat.

New rules will protect California workers from dangerous heat indoors

California joins just two other states that have heat regulations in place meant to keep millions of people who work in facilities like warehouses, restaurants or refineries safe.

Coldplay performs during the Glastonbury Festival 2024 on June 29, 2024. This week, the band's 10th album, Moon Music, became its fifth to hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Coldplay tops album chart, thanks to old-fashioned sales and modern tricks

The British band hasn't had a chart-topping album in a decade, but it pulled out all the stops to promote its latest, Moon Music, including selling more than a dozen different versions of the album.

A stainless steel safety net sits below the sidewalk on the Golden Gate Bridge on Jan. 5, 2024, to discourage people from jumping and to catch those who do.

After decades of advocacy, suicide deterrent finally comes to the Golden Gate Bridge

About 2,000 people are estimated to have jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge since 1937. Now, a safety net below the bridge is nearly complete.

Shaun Flores (from left), Sarah Jaley, Michael — a teacher who asked NPR not to use his last name for medical privacy — and Elizabeth Vossen say OCD impacts their lives on a day-to-day basis.

This is what it’s really like to have OCD, according to 4 people living with it

OCD is often misunderstood. Here’s what it’s like, from people who live with it.

Renee Westbrook performs her one-woman show "Shelter" this Friday in L.A. Feb. 26, 2020

Explore the many definitions of shelter in Renée Westbrook’s critically acclaimed play

Renée Westbrook's award-winning one-woman show will be performed in Los Angeles on Friday.

More than 10 years after Congress passed laws cracking down on insider trading among members, lawmakers are still beating the market and inspiring new funds based on their trades.

Stock traders are trying to beat the market — by copying lawmakers

The law requiring lawmakers to disclose their stock trades spurred an unintended consequence: a cottage industry with funds modeled on lawmakers' investments. These funds are beating the market.

Flanked by union members, President Biden signs orders that increase tariffs on imports of electric vehicles and other strategic goods from China.

Biden announces new tariffs on imports of Chinese goods, including electric vehicles

President Biden is keeping the tariffs on Chinese imports put in place by his predecessor and 2024 opponent, former President Donald Trump. And he's adding new ones for things like electric vehicles.

Pilot Rock rises into the clouds in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument near Lincoln, Ore., July 6, 2000.

National monument on California-Oregon border will remain intact after surviving legal challenge

The remote expanse of wilderness along the California-Oregon border that makes up the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument will not lose any of its acreage after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up two challenges to its expansion.

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