Shea Stephens

This is NPR.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is with pulling back its changes to a policy on grants to ease homelessness.

HUD will now continue mandating treatment and transitional housing for the homeless grants, but it will also cap the amount of funding for permanent housing.

It will also require that aid be aligned with Trump administration policies against diversity, equity, and inclusion.

A new study finds that this is golden era for discovering the variety of life on Earth.

Details from NPR's Nathan Roth.

Security checks are underway at nuclear power plants in northern Japan following a strong earthquake resulting in at least 23 injuries.

A tsunami warning was issued for about three hours.

The magnitude 6.7.6 quake struck an area about 50 miles off the northern coast of Honshu Island.

Emergency officials say most of the injured were hit by falling debris.

This is NPR.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Shea Stephens.

Some members of Congress have been briefed on the killings of two survivors of a U.S.

military strike in the Caribbean.

Navy Admiral Frank Bradley showed lawmakers a video of two people being killed in a second U.S.

attack on their damaged boat.

NPR's Franco Ordonez explains Bradley's role in the controversy.

And Piers Franco Ordonez.

Dozens of people have been killed in U.S.

strikes on boats that the Trump administration insists were hauling drugs across the Caribbean and East Pacific en route to the U.S.