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People are taking to social media to urge support for the U.S. Postal Service, which is in a financial crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with three people who have lost their jobs during the coronavirus lockdown about their experience of being laid off, applying for unemployment and surviving the pandemic.

More than half of the counties in the nation's so-called Diabetes Belt also have high rates of medical debt among their residents, an NPR analysis found.

A Ukrainian official says Russian shelling and missile strikes in Kharkiv hit only civilian buildings such as a shopping center, a a school and a shopping center, and are "absolute terrorism."

People with household incomes of less than $25,000 a year say in a new poll that the lack of cash really hurts their health. Low-quality food and dangerous housing are two reasons why.

Across the country, homes are beginning to take longer to sell, a sign that the hot real-estate market of the last decades is starting to cool. In the Boston metropolitan area, which has seen a faster appreciation of home values than most of the country, homes prices are not rising as fast they used to. Fred Thys of member station WBUR reports.

Ten years ago, a tree on a power line in Ohio touched off the largest outage in U.S. history. In New York City, many people were so relieved it wasn't another terrorism attack that in some places, a carnival atmosphere prevailed.

The vast patchwork of islands on a delta where three rivers meet is home to hundreds of tigers and 4 million people. As climate change squeezes the land they share, is increased conflict inevitable?

It's been nearly a year since the coronavirus pandemic began. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asked people to share the moment they realized COVID-19 was changing their lives.