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In the 1990s, Seattle voters backed a plan to build an elevated train through 14 miles of the most congested parts of the city. But the estimated price tag has risen to $11 billion, prompting talk that the project may be abandoned.

Around the world, landmines kill and injure thousands of people a year, most of them civilians. The Biden administration is restricting their use and continuing to help countries clear minefields.

A new book argues that Motown was a step in the evolution of the American popular song, a tradition reaching back to songwriters like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cole Porter.

In their new book, Annoying: The Science Of What Bugs Us, NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca and Science Friday's Flora Lichtman set out to examine why certain things — and people — drive us bananas.

What do Wikipedia and Craigslist have in common with the Tea Party movement? They succeed by being decentralized, says Rod Beckstrom, co-author of the management book The Starfish and the Spider.

Nuclear facilities, like the one Russia controls in Ukraine, should be off limits to warring parties. Russia's seizure of the nuclear plant sets a dangerous precedent.

The current Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, may be the most business-friendly high court of the past century, according to a new study.

For the second year in a row, the number of police officers and federal agents who've died on the job has risen sharply. On Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder met with more than two dozen police chiefs from across the country to see what the government can do to help.

Oil prices are soaring to levels never anticipated – nearly $100 a barrel. The price of oil affects just about everything that is made, transported, eaten and sold in the United States. But the cost hasn't had the impact on the economy many analysts expected.

Congressional Democrats and three Republicans have struck a deal that hands President Obama an early political victory. They agreed on a compromise bill for the gigantic economic stimulus package that the president requested. Their measure will be put to a vote as early as Thursday in the House and Senate, and it's expected to pass in both chambers.