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Recent flood deaths highlighted the dangers of living in basement apartments. Experts are looking for ways to keep people safer below ground and alternative affordable housing so they won't have to.

The International Energy Agency says that if nations honor their latest pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures could be held to 1.8 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

Officials described a surge of the crowd at the Astroworld Festival Friday night while rapper Travis Scott was performing. An estimated 50,000 people were in attendance.

Live Nation is the biggest live-events company in the world. Court records and federal citations show that the company was already linked to 200 other deaths and 750 injuries before Friday's tragedy.

The President has tested positive for the coronavirus. NPR speaks to Dr. Ashish Jha, the dean of the school of public health at Brown University, about the implications.

Congress approves the first increase in automobile fuel economy in 32 years, a measure that will boost vehicle fuel-efficiency mandates to 35 miles per gallon.

Democratic and GOP presidential candidates welcomed the new year at parties and events across Iowa in the final stretch before caucus-goers open the 2008 presidential voting season. Polls indicate the race may be too close to call.

For the first time, Nevada is holding its presidential caucuses in January. Democrats are expending enormous effort to reach out to the state's large Latino population, in hopes it will make difference not only in the caucuses but on Election Day.

Detroit's top auto executives have ditched their corporate jets for hybrid cars and replaced vague pleas for federal help with detailed requests for as much as $34 billion in their second crack at persuading Congress to throw their struggling companies a lifeline.

Each year, about one child in every 150 is diagnosed with autism. Eleven-year-old Andrew Skillings has Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism. Andrew's older sister, Marissa, talks about how she copes with her brother's meltdowns — and how she protects him from the other kids.