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An estimated 800 golf courses have closed in the last decade, freeing up vast swaths of green space and a new "golf course gold rush" for developers and loss of public courses for golfers.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jeri Green, 2020 census senior adviser to the National Urban League, about how a census undercount this year could negatively affect communities across the country.

Forecasters say an estimated 300 cold-weather records are expected to be tied or broken through Wednesday. The "arctic outbreak" is being blamed for four deaths so far.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security built two $36.9 million tent facilities in Texas to detain migrants apprehended at the border. Facilities in El Paso and Donna have just opened.

The labor union representing asylum officers claims the policy formally known as the Migrant Protection Protocols is a "widespread violation" of international and domestic law.

The EPA’s watershed assessment.

Recent polls show consistent support among Scots for leaving Great Britain. Many in Scotland think Prime Minister Boris Johnson is poorly suited to handle the pandemic and trust Scottish leaders more.

The U.S. is a big place, nearly 1.9 billion acres. Stacey Vanek Smith and Cardiff Garcia from NPR's daily economics podcast, The Indicator, look at how all that land is divvied up.

Tuesday's vote marked the third U.S. veto of a Security Council resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza. The Arab nations behind the plan hoped to show broad support for ending the Israel-Hamas war.

In her new book "First Among Equals," Emma Ashford argues for a new U.S. foreign policy model.