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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi welcomed the statue of civil rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune today at the Capitol.

Prices shot up 9.1% in June over the same time last year. That's even higher than what was expected and makes for a 40-year record.

Saul Griffith is the founder of Otherlab, a celebrated engineering firm in San Francisco. He’s also a MacArthur genius grant recipient who has been advising the Biden Administration on renewable energy.

Almost a year after Hurricane Ida killed 11 residents of mostly unregulated basement apartments in Queens, advocates say the city and state haven't done enough to make that type of housing safer.

The plan is to develop a baseline to monitor the river as Shell opens a large industrial complex this summer to make plastics.

Carl Cannon is stepping away from his position with the Peoria Park District after 21 years, as the ELITE Community Outreach program he founded transitions into an independent not-for-profit organization.

The hard-living Poole sold 102,000 copies of a song in 1931. His work has been covered by the likes of Jerry Garcia, The Chieftains and Tom T. Hall. Nevertheless, Poole remains obscure. Singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III means to change that with a two-CD tribute to Poole called High Wide & Handsome.

The noodle-obsessed chef's Momofuku chain has converted many New Yorkers to his brand of anything-but-instant ramen. Now Chang brings his recipe to the world in a new cookbook, Momofuku.

With the help of legendary Nashville session musicians and a little paternal assistance from Paul Simon, Harper Simon has just released his solo debut. But don't be fooled by his pedigree: The younger musician has his own sound.

An unlikely pair has come together to interpret the words and atmosphere of Jack Kerouac's autobiographical novel. Benjamin Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie) and Jay Farrar (of Son Volt and Uncle Tupelo) have both found inspiration in Kerouac's prose, creating a song cycle with country tinges.