A weeklong fight against flooding neared its climax in Fargo on Sunday, with miles of sandbags and clay dikes expected to hold back the bloated Red River at its crest with room to spare. City ...
The Internet has emerged as one of the greatest threats fueling the illegal wildlife trade, making it easier to buy everything from live baby lions to wine made from tiger bones, conservationists ...
When the owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in Manhattan decided to abandon the properties to their creditors in January, residents were left in a kind of legal limbo, worrying about ...
Spring is the peak time for home sales and, as the season begins, the federal government is launching a program to help the real estate market bloom again. Starting April 5, homeowners who qualify ...
Chile's capital withstood last month's 8.8 magnitude earthquake remarkably well. Most buildings in Santiago remained standing. Electricity and water services resumed quickly. But mental health ...
They passed out cigars in Fargo on Saturday, but no matches just yet, as a flood-weary city that's spent the last week getting ready to hold back the Red River cautiously prepared to celebrate what ...
News analyst James Fallows of The Atlantic magazine talks with host Guy Raz about the big stories of the week, including the final push for a health care overhaul and what's likely to be the next big ...
As the health care issue reaches a crescendo in Washington, Sarah Varney of member station KQED looks at how the debate is playing out across the rest of the nation.
Democratic House leaders say they've got the votes to pass a landmark health-care overhaul Sunday. And they're confident enough of getting an overhaul done that they've agreed to set aside the ...
Richard Garriott has many accomplishments to his name â he's a successful video game developer and one of fewer than 10 private citizens to travel into space. Now he even owns property on the moon. ...
