At last count, more than 46,000 people sought shelter every night in New York. The crisis stems from a lack of affordable housing and the city’s ever-growing gap between the rich and the poor.

Authorities in Maine issue a statewide alert for officers to stop a blue Buick station wagon with Colorado plates if they see one after a reported sighting of Jessica Ridgeway.

Lt. Col. Andrew Wood tells a House committee that U.S. security was so weak that in April, only one U.S. diplomatic security agent was stationed in Benghazi.

The court’s conservatives cast doubt on the program that uses race as a factor in admitting about a quarter of the university’s incoming freshmen.