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A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California about 150 miles northeast of Los Angeles. It is the largest earthquake in two decades to hit the state.

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Southern California Thursday didn't trigger early warning systems in Los Angeles. For an explanation, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with seismologist Lucy Jones.

The mayor of Brownsville, Texas, was told to expect close to 6,000 migrants released in the Rio Grande Valley this week. A local shelter has been taking in hundreds each day.

A volunteer in Baltimore spends her days trying to reconnect migrant children and parents who have been separated and detained. One story illustrates why it is not necessarily simple.

Congress narrowly avoids a government shutdown by passing a temporary funding bill. We look at what's next in Congress as well as the House committee investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The Labor Department reports that U.S. employers added 531,000 jobs in October. The unemployment rate fell to 4.6%.

U.S. employers added 531,000 new jobs as the unemployment rate fell to 4.6%. Millions of would-be workers are still on the sidelines, though, leaving the pace of the recovery in doubt.

In the wake of Hurricane Irma, more than 6.5 million customers in Florida are left without power. Eric Silagy, CEO of Florida Power & Light, which provides electricity to half the state, said on Monday that residents need to be prepared for "prolonged and extended outages."

Voters in Georgia's 6th congressional district vote in a special election runoff in two weeks. The race between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel is the most expensive U.S. House race in history.

President Trump's proposed budget released Tuesday rests on a key assumption: The economy will grow much faster than it has in recent years — and at a more robust pace than most analysts predict.