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Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed says mayors are in a position to accomplish a great deal, because they're locals. They can see a city the way "people who are most in need of help see it," he says.

An offer of savings on health insurance failed to motivate people to lose a modest amount of weight at a Philadelphia hospital system.

Baltimore journalist Adam Marton was looking at homicide data when he saw the name of the man he says stole his car, and remembered the scene: a subwoofer, a baby seat, a pile of job applications.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky, a Republican who led the effort, and Daniel Raymond, policy director for the Harm Reduction Coalition, about the impact of ending the ban.

This week, the race for 2016 ramps up in Iowa, a look at President Obama's push for tougher gun regulations, and a preview of his final State of the Union address.

The Labor Department's latest jobs report provided reassurance that the domestic economy is on track for 2016. That was welcome news, given all of the gloomy reports coming out of China.

Behind closed doors in Silicon Valley, top officials from the Obama administration looked into how big Internet companies can help weed out ISIS recruitment and run counter campaigns online.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Jim Warren, former managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, about Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's ongoing political crisis.

Turkey's army and Kurdish factions are battling regularly in the southeast part of the country, displacing thousands. The resumption of fighting has largely been overshadowed by regional turmoil.

The Mississippi River is expected to crest Sunday. Officials in low-lying New Orleans don't expect this time to be as bad as last month, but they're not taking any chances.