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Authorities are still struggling with the simplest tasks like clearing away debris, rebuilding houses and counting the dead.

U.S. stocks opened slightly higher today after the Dow Jones plunged more than 320 points yesterday -- the worst day in more than seven months.

Residents of a Belgium city were sick of the congestion and noise from trucks rumbling between the local brewery and a nearby bottling plant. Construction on the pipeline begins next year.

The Governor of Florida got a dressing down from the Attorney General of the United States recently. In a letter to Rick Scott late last month, Attorney…

A red tide bloom has been spotted near Bonita Beach Park in Lee County

John Kenneth Galbraith -- social economist, Harvard professor, diplomat -- is dead at 97. His work influenced Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson and generations of U.S. politicians. He spoke to Howard Berkes in 1999.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Kathy Emerson from Brunswick, Maine. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WMEA in Portland.)

The pandemic drove U.S. life expectancy down again in 2021 even though life-saving vaccines were widely available.

The Florida Department of Health says its dramatic drop in the number of new cases of HIV can be attributed to duplicate cases and changes to the way...

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore is documenting the world's captive animal species. His new book is Vanishing: The World's Most Vulnerable Animals. Originally broadcast Feb. 27, 2017.