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With bankruptcy looming in 2012, Detroit largely dismantled its public health department. Years later, that decision offers a cautionary tale to other U.S. cities as the painful rebuilding continues.

Fewer young adults are buying homes today compared with a decade ago. The National Housing Conference's Lisa Sturtevant and NPR's Marilyn Geewax explain worries that it could harm the housing market.

President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address Tuesday. NPR reporters provided context on a variety of policy issues.

Photographer Natalie Keyssar recounts the work of The Angels of Salvation, a group of volunteers dedicated to bringing aid to and helping to evacuate civilians in Ukraine's Donetsk region.

Since his death at 96, tributes to the singer and activist have centered his legacies in the U.S. But it's impossible to grasp Belafonte's larger meaning without first understanding his island roots.

A look at 2023's biggest media stories, from The Crown to Young Sheldon, Taylor Swift to Tony Bennett, Barbie to Blue Bloods, Harry Belafonte to Jimmy Buffett, Megan Mitchell to Married with Microphones, and Matthew Perry to Tina Turner.

Every year, we remember some of the writers, actors, musicians, filmmakers and performers who died over the past year, and whose lifetime of creative work helped shape our world.

In 2005, two Chicagoans made a generational classic and then sprinted in opposite directions, each daring the rest of hip-hop to follow them.

It's a historical romance set in the late 1800s about a young female journalist who goes to Chile in the late 1800s to cover a brewing civil war.

From foreign policy and tariffs to immigration changes and targeting of DEI, here's a look back at some of the major moves made in the past 100 days of President Trump's second administration.