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In Venezuela, bread, meat, milk and other staples are scarce these days. So Venezuela's government is urging urban slum dwellers to grow and raise their own food. But it's a challenge.

Nicolas Maduro is expelling most U.S. diplomats and demanding Americans secure visas to enter the country. Critics say it's an effort to draw attention from the nation's economic meltdown.

The FBI is calling the attack at a Minnesota Catholic church an act of domestic terrorism driven by "hate-filled ideology." Extremism analysts say the picture may be more complex.

Authorities identified a suspect and now they are working to figure out why a 23 year old shot and killed 2 school children and wounded 17 other people at a Catholic school and church in Minneapolis.

Brittany Penn was just 16 years old when Katrina hit. NPR's Michel Martin reports on this young woman's 20-year fight to rebuild her community in New Orleans' Upper Ninth Ward.

Susan Monarez, who has led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for under a month, is out of the job, according to the department. Her lawyers say she hasn't been told and she won't resign.

With climate change causing hotter summers, states from Arizona to Illinois to Connecticut are exploring the idea of around-the-clock care during heat waves.

Amtrak just reopened a route from Mobile, Ala., to New Orleans that's connecting communities along the Gulf Coast for the first time since Hurricane Katrina. It's called the Mardi Gras line.

Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world. That means jobs that in the U.S. are relatively safe and boring, like driving a bus, can be incredibly dangerous. It all starts with a phone call.

While much of the focus marking 20 years since Hurricane Katrina is on New Orleans, where federal levees failed and flooded the city, the historic storm also decimated the Mississippi Gulf Coast.