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Federal forecasters expect more hurricanes than usual this year. Climate change is driving larger, more destructive storms. This is the seventh year in a row with an above-average forecast.

The clock is ticking on one of President Bush's most controversial legacies. The tax cut packages enacted in 2001 and 2003 will soon expire. In a new series, NPR lays out the policy and politics behind the debate to extend them, and looks at how taxes affect individuals, corporations and states.

Khan’s food writing is more than just recipes. We speak to her about the stakes of a good meal in the moments you feel you have little else.

The pace of layoffs slowed in April when employers cut a net 539,000 jobs, the fewest in six months. But the unemployment rate climbed to 8.9 percent, the highest since late 1983, as many businesses remain wary of hiring given all the economic uncertainties.

Scientists have long known about the link between severely premature birth and cerebral palsy, a condition that limits mobility and movement. But a new study shows that children born just two or three weeks before term also have a higher risk of the condition.

For former Marine Benjamin Busch, his time spent in Iraq meant fighting ideals as an American soldier, not as a Christian. Blending church and state is dangerous in any context, but in war, he says, America walks a fine line between religious extremism and zealous patriotism.

As the unemployment rate rises to 7.6 percent, Senate Democrats pushed to pass the stimulus bill. Senators made their way through amendments on the floor as a bipartisan gang of 20 met off-stage to come up with a plan that can get at least 60 votes.

Every day seems to bring another report of a major U.S. company laying off workers. But there is some good news on the horizon. And some more bad news.

President Obama's stimulus package includes $19 billion to computerize the nation's health care system, including medical records and prescriptions. Doctors are reluctant to give up the paper system they've relied on for so long, but nonetheless, some of them are rising to the president's challenge.

Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of William Strunk and E.B. White's Elements of Style, the grammar manual used by millions of students, including commentator Marc Acito.