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Recent flood deaths highlighted the dangers of living in basement apartments. Experts are looking for ways to keep people safer below ground and alternative affordable housing so they won't have to.

He's had quite a September. Bedford has just been named a MacArthur Fellow and was also awarded a $9 million, 7-year grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for his work on the pandemic.

In Europe, storage facilities are at historically low levels for this time of year.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard about his new book, The Morning Star, his first novel since publishing his six-volume autobiographical series.

Fatima Bhutto (niece of assassinated Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto) has written several volumes of nonfiction and poetry; her first novel is a delicate but tense political thriller.

President Biden's push for vaccine mandates is supported by a majority of voters, but it marks a break with his previous unifying tone — a sign that Democrats see pandemic politics changing.

Her vegan versions of soul food dishes and her trademark Southern kindness have made her a unique presence on the sometimes not-so-kind internet.

How did we get pushed up against yet another budgetary wall? And is there any chance we can avoid the lights going out on Capitol Hill?

Filmmakers Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra are both winners of MacArthur Genius grants this year. The married couple do separate but related work dealing with immigration and migrant labor.

The National Women's Soccer League fired Burke after officials launched an investigation into allegations of harassment and a toxic work culture.

We don't know the full impact of nonfatal firearms-related injuries. Unreliable data and political pressure have obscured the picture for researchers, the media and the public. That may soon change.

The law has kept people from falling into homelessness during the pandemic. But many say rental assistance money has been hard to access.