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President Jovenel Moïse was killed earlier this month by gunmen who raided his private home in an attack that authorities say involved Haitians, Haitian-Americans and former Colombian soldiers.

A typhoon made landfall in eastern China on Sunday, as central China is still struggling with record flooding that killed dozens people, and forced more than a million people from their homes.

Life forever changed in Surfside, Fla. when a condo building collapsed last month. Weeks later, the beachfront town is trying to heal itself as it helps families affected by the tragedy.

One citizen has taken the Los Angeles homeless crisis into his own hands, building dozens of small shelters and giving them to the homeless. But the city says the structures are unsafe.

New members of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors expressed concerns with the plan, but it's moving ahead.

An energy company is heading to court for the right to drill in Montana, near Glacier National Park. But some Native Americans and environmental groups want to stop the long-delayed project.

Officials are investigating an explosion that happened in Manhattan Saturday night. NPR's Rachel Martin gets the latest.

The state's attorney general says nearly three-quarters of Airbnb's listings in New York City are illegal. The company says local laws should be changed to accommodate the sharing economy.

Béarnaise is a classic French sauce typically served with steak. But it's tricky for a home chef to keep the raw egg and the butter in it from separating. A chef reveals his secret weapon.

Two years ago today, carrying a glut of sub-prime mortgages, Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy.

As NPR marks 50 years, we're looking back at an event that changed the celebrity fundraiser: The Concert for Bangladesh, which took place on Aug. 1, 1971.

In the 1980s and 1990s, asthma rates in U.S. kids reached epidemic proportions. Though studies indicate the rates are leveling off, rates for African American and Hispanic children and inner-city populations aren't declining. New research suggests poverty, stress and poor mental health may be fueling the problem. Madge Kaplan of member station WGBH reports.

Among the attendees are people who also spread misinformation about 2020 presidential election and other conspiracy theories.

The Cuban piano whiz teams up with American jazz greats Jack DeJohnette and Ron Carter on a new album. Skyline is three masters enjoying each other's company, with us listeners as lucky eavesdroppers.

A federal jury in Tacoma, Wash., found that private prison contractor, the GEO Group, underpaid detainees who provided menial services in the facility

Costco pays $17 an hour after a second raise this year. Starbucks is raising hourly pay to $15 amid a union effort. Major chains are pushing to draw workers, who have shunned a million retail jobs.

President Biden and Vice President Harris head to Atlanta — a city at the epicenter of past and present battles over voting rights — to make the case to advance stalled legislation in Congress.

He allegedly wrote a graphic Craigslist post about killing three officials and harming law enforcement families. The case is the first brought by the Justice Department's election threats task force.

Ambivalence about refugees runs high in Denmark. Danes are critical of a new law requiring police to take cash and valuables from asylum seekers. But they're also nervous about rising refugee numbers.

After a move to a new neighborhood, a short-haired 10-year-old decides on impulse to introduce herself as Michael — and thereby charts a surprising summer for herself and her new friends. (Recommended)