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In 2006, two Manhattan housing projects were at the center of a real estate fiasco that would come to epitomize the housing crisis. Charles Bagli's Other People's Money explains how the government of Singapore was among those who paid for the mistakes of New York's real estate giants.

Doctors and health researchers are looking to testing rates, case rates – and intuition – to determine when they'll feel comfortable mingling maskless indoors.

The war with Iran has driven up gas prices at a time when affordability is high on people's minds.

China is reopening its pandemic closed borders. Ukraine wants to host a peace summit at the U.N. in February. States that charged people to pay foster care bills added to the struggles of families.

The Trump Justice Department subpoenaed Apple in 2018 to obtain metadata of at least two Democratic members of the House intelligence panel — as well as their current and former staff and family.

Gov. Rick Scott said Monday the state is sending $5 million to Miami-Dade County to help in the ongoing effort to stem an outbreak of the Zika virus.

In the 1980s, AIDS activists demanded action from the U.S. government in a dramatic way, and got results. Now, they have a new goal: more affordable access to an HIV prevention pill.

Cities are starting to update a critical public service: on-street parking. Washington, D.C. is in the vanguard of this new parking shift. Officials are working with private companies -- trying out five different technologies to collect parking revenue.

While too much shouldn't be made out of off-year elections, today's will be the first major electoral sign of the political mood and what voters think of the president.

For astronauts living at the International Space Station, money is practically useless. There's nowhere to spend it. Instead astronauts developed a functioning barter economy.

In their memoir Sliver of Light, Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal explain how they were captured on a road that bordered Iran, accused of spying and imprisoned for two years.

Tara Dower — trail name Candy Mama — has laid claim to the fastest known time for running the Appalachian Trail.

SNAP has about $6 billion in the contingency fund — short of the roughly $9 billion needed to cover a full month of the program, putting November benefits in jeopardy.

After homerun record-holder Barry Bonds' federal indictment on perjury charges over steroids use, there are questions about whether he will make it into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant, senior writer for ESPN.com, about Bonds' future.

While her mother worked long hours, musicals on VHS would entertain the singer when she was young.

School boards across the country are grappling with how to manage school board meetings where emotions increasingly run high.

Meta offers more powerful graphics and "mixed reality" experiences with their new Quest 3 VR headset. But at $500, the device lacks many stand-out games to justify the price.

The West Nile virus was identified for the first time in Uganda in the 1930s. It was infecting people in the West Nile region of Africa. The virus spreads when mosquitoes bite infected animals, and then bite humans. It showed up for the first time in the United States two summers ago. In 1999, thousands of crows around New York City, infected with the virus, began dropping dead out of the sky and dozens of people ended up in hospitals. Now a federal study, which has not been published, suggests that since it arrived in the U.S., the West Nile virus has made roughly 1,400 people sick. It has spread from New York and now is known to infect animals along the East Coast, up to the Canadian border and down to North Carolina. It is expected to eventually spread across the entire United States. NPR's Daniel Zwerdling reports the case of West Nile symbolizes a dilemma: as the global economy knits countries closer together, it's also making the United States more vulnerable to exotic diseases. The story of West Nile is a production of NPR and American Radio Works. It was produced by Marisa Penaloza.

The bombing by members of the Ku Klux Klan killed Sarah Collins Rudolph's sister and three other young girls.

A failing marriage and a catastrophic earthquake take center stage in Safran Foer's new novel. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Here I Am a profound work about the claims of history, identity and family.

The I-4 Corridor stretches from Daytona Beach to Tampa, and has become a symbolic battleground in the one of the most coveted states in the race for the…

Pell Grants and federal student loans will still be processed. However, the speed of new FAFSA applications may slow down due to staff furloughs at the Department of Education and the Federal Student Aid program, one expert explained to WLRN.

Nearly 5,400 Universal Orlando workers will go on extended furlough as the theme park struggles with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Tom Smith, executive director of the American Society of Civil Engineers, about the current state of the nation's infrastructure. The group issued a report card in 2017.

Polk County took a direct hit from Hurricane Irma, with the storm hitting Lakeland just after midnight Sunday night.The winds caused widespread damage --…