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NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with campaign reporter Scott Detrow about former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro ending his campaign for president.

In 1968, the British singer flew to the U.S. after signing with Atlantic Records. Her acclaimed recordings from this period are collected in Dusty Springfield: The Complete Atlantic Singles 1968-1971.

California's top election official has announced that organizers of a campaign to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom have submitted enough valid signatures to place the question before voters later this year.

The Justice Department and the CIA's Inspector General are both investigating the agency's 2005 destruction of videotapes of the interrogations of top al-Qaida operatives. The Justice Department has already started what it calls a "preliminary inquiry" into the matter.

Two major airlines, Delta and Northwest, file for bankruptcy protection. Delta is asking pilots for additional concessions on wages, and Northwest is reportedly moving to offer permanent positions to the mechanics who replaced those on strike.

India wants to steer talks away from Russia, with which it's maintained ties despite the Ukraine invasion. Russia's top diplomat walked out of a previous G-20 summit over criticism of the war.

Democrats argue the top Senate leader's retirement might be a good thing. But it's going to set off a scramble to replace him in one of the most hotly contested races in 2016.

The Senate Judiciary Committee votes to give Chairman Patrick Leahy the power to subpoena 11 current and former Bush administration officials regarding the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has released a plan for moving the state from thinking about COVID-19 as a pandemic, to dealing with it as a disease people will learn to live with.

The president has spent three days and nights in a frenzy of mixed messaging that amounts to counter-programming not only his rivals but his own administration, his own party and even himself.