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Big cities in the U.S. are searching for ways to stem the sharp rise in homicides that has occurred over the past two years. A close look at Chicago, where nearly 800 people were killed in 2021.

Because the public health system mostly operates in the background, it rarely gets the attention or funding it deserves ― until there's a crisis.

With a historic snowpack starting to melt, increasing flood concerns in central California, there's an effort under way to capture as much of the water as possible in underground aquifers.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Robert Mahoney, deputy executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, about the hundreds of journalists jailed worldwide in 2018.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to CNN's Hadas Gold about London officials failing to extend Uber's operating license. Regulators said the company's poor track record put passengers at risk.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Evan Medeiros, professor of Asian studies at Georgetown University, about escalating tensions between the U.S. and China and the consulate closures ordered by each side.

NPR's David Greene talks to Andrew Light, a former State Department climate official who helped develop the Paris climate agreement. The U.S. withdrawal from the pact will be completed in a year.

The intelligence committee's Republican majority cites the denials of people in Trump world that they conspired with the active measures that targeted the 2016 election.

The education world is watching the GOP tax proposals closely, in our weekly roundup.

At the beginning of November, the six-member White House opioid commission delivered 56 recommendations to President Trump, for reigning in the nation's opioid crisis. On Thursday, the White House hosted a summit on opioids. Commission member Bertha Madras speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about the progress she sees happening, or not, toward those 56 recommendations.