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The high cost of housing is encouraging Londoners to build down instead of up. They're digging out basements to create underground mansions — often to neighbors' dismay.

Rolling blackouts and power shortages make it hard to get anything done in Africa — from cooking a hot breakfast to running a small business.

President Trump sided with Democrats over leaders of his own party on a deal to fund hurricane relief, as well as avert a government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling for three months.

Fifty years ago, singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry released a song that described a slice of life in rural Mississippi. Critic Kevin Whitehead shares a few of the jazz covers that followed.

Public health advocates have struggled to change the minds of these so called anti-vaxxers. But one South Carolina woman has a different approach: reaching parents before they even become parents.

Mudcat Grant pitched for Cleveland when the league was still deeply segregated and went on to make history.

Paul Wink's new book examines Maria Callas’s inner life and the external forces that led to a blazing career in opera, a loud crash and burn, and a sad and lonely finale.

Eighty years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed an executive order that sent thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps. Actor George Takei was among them.

From solar panels to electric buses — the Biden Administration wants to make it easier for schools to tap more than $5.5 billion for climate-friendly upgrades.

Regarded as one of the most important figures in jazz, tributes are planned across the world to honor the legacy of bassist, bandleader and pioneer Charles Mingus.