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Every four years, organizers of the Olympic Games promise that expensive facilities will be put to good use after the crowds depart. But saddled with high maintenance costs, Beijing's Olympic venues, such as the Bird's Nest stadium, are struggling to find an afterlife.

The public health gurus are using weddings as teachable moments for disaster preparedness. Plan ahead, prepare an emergency kit, and stay informed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises. But that's just the beginning.

NASA has enlisted a crew to test how astronauts will cook and eat on years-long missions to Mars. The volunteers are learning to make French bread and Puerto Rican white bean stew out of shelf-stable ingredients in a low-gravity environment because you can only eat so much freeze-dried ice cream.

U.N. Special Envoy Kofi Annan and Syrian President al-Assad met Monday to save a peace deal that's failed to end ongoing violence. Opposition leaders say it has left more than 17,000 dead. NPR's Deborah Amos talks about the effects the fighting is having on people in the country and the region.

Tens of millions of Americans are still struggling, despite the slow economic recovery. In Reading, Pa., the nation's poorest city, local nonprofit Opportunity House provides a lifeline for families trying to stay afloat by offering day care, housing and other assistance. But many in Reading are still left behind.

As Patrick Somerville read the scathing New York Times review of his book This Bright River, he realized the whole thing hinged on a factual error. To clear up the mistake, an editor at the Times emailed one of the book's main characters. The two developed what Somerville calls a "ghost relationship."

Work being performed on WKU Public Radio's tower in Warren County Wednesday morning will cause reduced power for those in the south-central Kentucky and…

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's speech Wednesday at the NAACP convention in Houston comes at a precarious time for the nation's African-American community. The environment raises some opportunities for Romney as he challenges the nation's first black president.

Each month, NPR's All Things Considered invites a poet into the newsroom to see how the show comes together, and to write an original poem about the news. This month, our NewsPoet is Paisley Rekdal. Want to write your own poem about the day's news? You can put them in the comments below.

Local governments looking to make ends meet are seizing homes from owners behind on their taxes. Investors on Wall Street are the ones who reap the profits.