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President Biden is visiting Texas one week after he officially declared a major disaster in the state, which has been reeling from record cold, power outages and a water crisis.

One hundred large fires are burning in 12 states across the West — but just five of them have been contained, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.

Before the coronavirus hit, many workers chose freelance or contract jobs because they preferred the flexibility and variety it offered. But now millions are turning to freelancing out of necessity.

Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers say the shooter has been identified as Brandon Hole, 19, a former employee at the facility. Police say they don't know the suspect's motive.

Chad Wolf, former acting head of the Department of Homeland Security, says before taking office, the Biden administration was cautioned about a lack of capacity to handle an influx of migrants.

NPR's Michel Martin discusses 100-year-old wartime recipes with Lora Vogt of the National WWI Museum and Memorial.

Officials are trying to shrink the timetable for many asylum cases from "years to months." That could benefit people with legitimate asylum claims and discourage some unauthorized migration.

As Biden stated, crossings often rise during the early months of the year as the weather improves. But the number of unaccompanied children arriving is considerably higher than in the recent years.

Rarely has a single food gotten such star treatment as the hamburger that made its debut in London on Monday. But the burger — grown from stem cells taken from a cow — represents a technology potentially so disruptive that it has attracted the support of Google co-founder Sergei Brin.

The environmental agency has proposed permits that would allow oil companies to continue releasing contaminated wastewater onto the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming. NPR found last year that the EPA has been allowing oil companies to send so much wastewater onto dry land that it was creating raging streams.