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Architect Louis Sullivan's buildings defined the city of Chicago at the turn of the last century, but by the 1950s, many of those buildings were being torn down. Photographer Richard Nickel raced against time to preserve them on film, but it was a race he lost — Nickel was killed when one of the buildings he was shooting collapsed on top of him.

Republicans have been giving Idaho Sen. Larry Craig the cold shoulder since he announced he wouldn't resign. During a recent vote, not one of the many GOP lawmakers gathered on the Senate floor spoke to or even went near their colleague.

Top officials from ten U.S. Cabinet-level agencies, led by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, will meet with their counterparts from China this week. The goal is to ease tensions over trade and currency issues.

Kurdish authorities are trying to preserve an ancient citadel above Irbil that local historians say has been a site of human habitation for 7,000 years. But in order to preserve it, they've had to relocate its most recent habitants — refugee Kurds.

General David Petraeus's report on the Iraq war won't be delivered until next month, but already the White House and the military are dropping hints that the troop "surge" is showing progress. It's part of a strategy to get Congress and the public to support extending the surge into next year.

It hasn't been cold enough to freeze Ottawa's Rideau Canal, the world's longest naturally frozen skating rink.

A jury in New York found Genaro Garcia Luna guilty of taking bribes from a cartel. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Maria Hinojosa, founder of Futuro Studios and co-host of the podcast USA V. Garcia Luna.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Associated Press reporter Dake Kang, who's been visiting emergency rooms in China, about the impact of the latest wave of COVID-19 infections.

New York Rep.-elect George Santos last month won a House seat on Long Island but much of his biography and resume appear to have been invented. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Dec. 20, 2022.)

The House voted Monday on a new rules package that contains key concessions to the most conservative wing of the party.