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Republican Gov. Jim Justice says his plan to cut income taxes will entice throngs of people to move to West Virginia and maybe attract the next major amusement park. Critics say the plan is naive.

A ban on girls singing in public imposed by Afghan education officials is being reviewed after a social media campaign in which local women belted out their favorite songs in videos online.

The shootings in Atlanta have rattled the Asian-American community in Georgia. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Bee Nguyen, a representative in the state legislature.

Denied USDA loans and grants for over a century, Black farmers will receive stimulus money. Black farmers won a class action discrimination lawsuit in the '90s, but many didn't get debt relief.

The new funds will enable K-12 schools to ramp up screening testing, which can "identify asymptomatic disease and prevent clusters before they start," said CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.

In Cherokee County, Ga., authorities are still trying to understand why a 21-year-old man shot and killed four people at Young's Asian Massage Parlor and then killed four others at spas in Atlanta.

As a senator, President Biden played a key role in passing the landmark 1994 law, which he called "one of my proudest legislative achievements." It wasn't reauthorized in 2018 over partisan disputes.

The Biden administration wants to work with Central American countries to stem the flow of migration to the U.S., but concerns about corruption means implementing the policies likely won't be smooth.

Biden wants to change the filibuster to one in which a senator actually has to talk for potentially hours on end. Many Democrats hope that could ease passage of some of their priorities.

The annual homeless count by the Department of Housing and Urban Development shows an increase in people living outside. The 2020 numbers in the report do not reflect the impact of the pandemic.