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Gavin Newsom focused his recent State of the State speech on homelessness. He has worked on the issue for 20 years, from San Francisco City Hall to the Capitol in Sacramento.

Spoiler alert: It's still melting. A new study looks at the impact of rising rainfall. Meanwhile, scientists are more concerned about environmental threats than defrosting pathogens.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Mary Kate Cary, who wrote speeches for President George H.W. Bush, and Paul Orzulak, who was a Clinton administration peechwriter, about current presidential politics.

Desmond Tutu will be remembered for helping end apartheid. But also for his memorable laugh, an infectious, cackling howl employed in the service of easing tensions in a very tense nation.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will seek to set a new tone when he meets President Biden following tense moments between Israel's former leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Democrats.

As the U.S. entered World War I, Congress created a limit on aggregate federal debt and also a cloture rule to end filibusters. The two are linked again in the current battles on Capitol Hill.

Michael Dobbs writes of a time when a bipartisan group in Congress could command respect as investigators, and when even leaders of the president's party were prepared to acknowledge his wrongdoing.

For the first time, the Democratic National Convention invited 200 content creators — including ones who never talk politics. Now that it's over, those creators and influencers have some notes.

Google plans to launch a censored version of its search engine in China, according to documents leaked to The Intercept. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Ryan Gallagher, who broke the story and NPR's China correspondent Rob Schmitz, about Internet experience in China.

After a storm devastated parts of eastern Spain last week, survivors are becoming impatient at the steady government rescue efforts. On Sunday, it all went down in the town of Paiporta.