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A pandemic-era rental assistance program that paid hotels in New Hampshire to open their doors to as many as 900 unhoused people is ending this spring.

NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports Secretary of State Colin Powell goes before a key Senate committee today, as members of Congress take stock of the evidence he presented to the United Nations yesterday. Some Democrats say if the United States attacks Iraq, it must maintain a peace-keeping force there for years to come.

The Congress President Clinton will work with next year is expected to be quite a different body than its predecessor. Political observers are predicting that the Senate will be more extreme -- on both sides of the aisle -- while the House looks more moderate than the 104th Congress. Congressional leaders are already promising to keep up the pace of investigations of the administration. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

In Parks and Recreation, Plaza played an intern who hated everybody and everything. In The Little Hours, she plays a nun who hates everybody and everything, so it's nice to see her branching out.

Tony Tooke's resignation, which is effective immediately, came days after PBS NewsHour reported that the U.S. Agriculture Department was investigating sexual misconduct complaints against him.

The cost of a hotel room is up — a lot. Recently, prices have leapt nationwide at triple the rate of inflation. Even some business travelers are turning to peer-to-peer rentals to escape the prices.

A new report finds $85 million in loans for a U.S.-supported hotel and apartment project in Afghanistan are gone, and that the buildings are unfinished and appear to be abandoned.

The weekend after Thanksgiving, a 30-year Pittsburgh tradition gets underway — the annual Dirty Dozen bike race. It's when some of the city's toughest residents tackle its steepest hills.

As the fire risk heightens in drought-stressed Vermont and New Hampshire, the U.S. Forest Service has positioned a firefighting helicopter at Lebanon Municipal Airport to improve response times.

Security forces are regaining control of the hotel. Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne talk to NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, NPR National Security Editor Phil Ewing and France's ambassador to the U.S.