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Legislation meant to keep Michigan polling places and election workers safe is set to receive a hearing this week.

Voters will decide whether the city's first openly gay and first Black female mayor will win reelection or face a runoff. Why is the incumbent mayor facing so many challengers?

Nearly 60 bodies have been recovered from a migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean. Many more are feared dead. Eighty migrants survived when their rickety vessel sank off the Italian coast.

Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed on a plan to cool tensions, but then two Israeli settlers were killed in the occupied West Bank. That led hundreds of Israelis to go on a deadly rampage.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Susan Joy Hassol of the nonprofit Climate Communication about the increasing toll from extreme weather events nationwide.

NPR's A Martinez speaks to Nintendo game director Shigeru Miyamoto about the ways in which his games have engaged players for more than 30 years.

California is experiencing record amounts of rain and snow, and there's more wet weather in this week's forecast. NPR's A Martinez talks to Hayley Smith of the Los Angeles Times.

That's the view of Joseph Glauber of the International Food Policy Research Institute. He considers the fear the war would lead to a surge in food prices – and a dramatic worsening of world hunger.

Microsoft is putting restraints on its new AI chatbot after it professed its love to some and berated others. Some experts say the company may have released the bot too quickly.

Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed to cool tensions but then: chaos. California gets historic rain and snow but remains under a drought emergency. Chicago's mayor faces a tough reelection bid.