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U.S. employers added 372,000 jobs in June, while the unemployment rate held steady at 3.6%. Despite slightly slower job growth, the labor market remains an economic bright spot.

"There is very little, if any, good news about housing," says David M. Blitzer, who oversees the widely watched S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices report.

A 10th week at the top of the Billboard pop chart is quite an accomplishment. Before the 2000s, that was the rarest of feats. In the days of streaming though, it's become more common.

This week, The Weeknd's new album, Hurry Up Tomorrow, debuts atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, and the biggest winners and performers from the Grammys experience big chart bumps.

A raccoon was on the roof and refused to budge. The driver continued another 6 miles to his destination, when the raccoon must have known the ride was over and just climbed down on his own.

Two shootings wounded five people in the city this past weekend. A curfew will go into effect late this week requiring that people be off the streets between midnight and 6 a.m.

Political trouble persists for Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS). The White House is holding Lott at distance. A Jan. 6 vote will decide if Lott stays as Senate Republican leader. Many in the party are worried that a continuing focus on Lott's racially insensitive remarks will alienate minorities. NPR's Michele Norris talks to Al Bartell, a member of the Grassroots Leadership Initiative for the Georgia State Republican Party; GOP fundraiser Harold E. Doley Jr.; and Michael Brady, president of the Palm Beach county chapter of the Florida Black Republican Council.

The National Weather Service predicts as much as 6 inches of rain, with flash flooding possible in urban settings just weeks after Hurricane Ida pummeled the area.

For the first time in five years, the poverty rate in the United States did not increase, according to new numbers released by the Census Bureau. The national poverty level remained steady at 12.6 percent. That's about 37 million people living in poverty, the U.S. Census Bureau says.