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Home insurance is becoming more expensive and increasingly difficult to get in states that are on the front lines of climate change. And some of the potential solutions aren't politically popular.

Consumers kept spending and businesses investing in the first half of the year, leading to healthy growth in the U.S. GDP. But there's still some apprehension about a possible recession. Here's why.

A blockbuster new study finds that America's elite private colleges are systematically giving huge advantages to rich kids over their equally bright, yet less privileged peers.

Wildfires in Greece have forced thousands of locals and tourists to flee. One of the largest fires is on the island of Rhodes, where officials say it's the "largest evacuation" ever in the country.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with conservative columnist Matt Lewis about his new book "Filthy Rich Politicians," which looks at why so many members of Congress are millionaires.

Major League Soccer wants to be taken more seriously. Yet MLS still lags behind the top European leagues. Bringing Lionel Messi to play in America could change that.

A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the instrument named after him.

Mayor Suyapa Jaqueline Trejo wanted music education for the youth of Macuelizo and a better quality of life for her town. Her municipality was strapped for cash. So she came up with a novel idea.

Russia struck the Ukrainian Black Sea city of Odesa again on Sunday, keeping up a barrage of attacks that has damaged critical port infrastructure in southern Ukraine in the past week.

Scores of wildfires are burning across Greece. A wildfire burning on the Greek island of Rhodes has forced authorities to order an evacuation of sites including seaside resorts full of tourists.