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NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with Ben Schafer, professor of civil engineering at Johns Hopkins University, about the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

Californians have until 8 p.m. local time Tuesday to vote on whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom. President Biden traveled to the state Monday to drum up support for Newsom.

Oklahoma's highest court rejected a reparations lawsuit brought by Viola Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle, who lived through the racist attack over 100 years ago.

Last week, BuzzFeed's Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith defended his organization's decision to publish the Russia dossier. He talks to NPR's Michel Martin about how the move changed BuzzFeed's approach to journalism.

WNBA legend Candace Parker is retiring after 16 years in the league. NPR's A Martinez talks to Ben Pickman of The Athletic, about how Parker has changed the game, and what comes next.

Arizona's secretary of state announced Monday that his office has certified more than enough signatures to put access to abortion on the November ballot.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks hockey with Ben Gotz from the Las Vegas Review Journal after the Vegas Golden Knights win their first NHL Championship.

Belgian politician Ben Weyts was on a mission to promote cycling. He biked to a news conference where he announced an investment in bike lanes. A half hour later, his bike was gone.

A new opera with libretto by Ben Katchor. Katchor is the creator of the comic strip, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. Like the strip, the opera springs from Katchor's fascination with the urban landscape - specifically, two different buildings and their very different inhabitants. The work is being performed by musicians from the New York new music collective called Bang on a Can, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts, this weekend. Charlene Scott, of member station WFCR in Amherst, has the story.

The Federal Reserve's response to the crisis in the housing market was Chairman Ben Bernanke's biggest move since he took office. It comes in a week of publicity about his predecessor Alan Greenspan. But the real pressure stemmed from an economy at risk and the lives of consumers disrupted.