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Three years ago, councilmembers in Washington, D.C., approved a tax hike on the wealthy as a way to raise the wages of child care workers. It's led to big gains for the city's child care workforce.

A report released Thursday found that series of weaknesses, including "outdated policies, inconsistent practices and communications vulnerabilities," slowed the response to the January fires.

Federal officials say they arrested around 370 people in North Carolina this week in immigration crackdowns around Charlotte and the Research Triangle.

The Santa Monica Museum of Art reopened as the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The first show features Ramirez, a Mexican migrant worker who spent much of his life in mental institutions.

A global shortage of face masks is prompting concern for the safety of health care workers. Now the U.S. government is trying to bring back an industry that largely left the country years ago.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Terry Gainer, former chief of the Capitol Police and former Senate sergeant-at-arms, about how Capitol Police reacted to pro-Trump extremists breaching U.S. Capitol.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Rep. Cori Bush, D.-Mo., about what it was like to be inside the U.S. Capitol when pro-Trump extremists broke into the building.

The president's 2020 budget plan calls for studying space-based energy weapons as a way to stop warheads. Critics say it didn't work with the "Star Wars" program in the 1980s and it won't work now.

The Trump administration has proposed repealing a Biden-era rule that required states to change how they pay out child care subsidies, citing the potential for fraud.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has long been accused of corruption. Sightseers now flock to his hometown as groups aim to raise awareness of what they say are the leader's excesses.