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San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie speaks with A Martinez about the city's top issues and his plans to curb homelessness.

Struggling to keep up with a COVID-19 surge in Michigan, overwhelmed local health departments turned to schools, and recruited principals and teachers as supplemental contact tracers.

Just 88,000 jobs were added to private and public payrolls in March. The jobless rate still edged down to 7.6 percent — but only because nearly half a million fewer people were in the labor force.

On Wednesday, the crew of NASA's Artemis II could blast off on a mission around the moon and back. No astronaut has ventured out to the moon since the 1970s.

In Baghdad, gunmen attack senior diplomats from Pakistan and Bahrain. Bahrain's top envoy in Bahgdad was slightly wounded -- while the head of the Pakistani mission escaped injury.

Unemployment insurance is at the top of the list for President Obama as Congress returns to Washington, but the big budget battles still loom.

We round up the top global stories of the year.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with New York Times business reporter Peter Eavis about the end of the de minimis exemption for international shipments, and what it means for consumers.

FEMA is now auctioning off trailers sent to Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. But that's just one way to deal with a surplus.

An NPR/Marist survey found that 1 in 5 workers is a contractor, not a steady payroll employee. For about half of these workers, income can vary greatly from month to month, making budgeting difficult.