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New York beams as the birthplace of hip hop but other cities share credit in the genre's early success.

In Colombia’s second-largest city, rainy-season floods — and dry-season fires —are now a fact of life.

Last year's attempt fell short by 836 Kyles.

The city is trying to adapt to the threats of climate change.

An artist spent 60 hours painting a mural on the side of his house to celebrate the NFL team's victory. The urban planning department in Kansas City, Kan., told him to remove it by month's end.

It's been one year since China passed a sweeping national security law for Hong Kong that criminalized protest and curbed the city's long-cherished autonomy from mainland China.

In a week when attention was focused on Baltimore, NPR's Rachel Martin visited the city's New Shiloh Baptist Church. She spoke with Rev. Harold Carter Jr. and a young church member, Caleb Studivant.

On the third anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq, President Bush speaks in Ohio about the progress of the conflict and the challenges ahead. He says Americans need to look beyond the violence in Iraq for signs of progress.

It was around midnight 75 years ago that Southern California suffered one of the worst disasters in the state's history -- the collapse of an immense dam that sent a deadly wall of water in a 54-mile swath to the Pacific Ocean. Nearly 500 people died, and it ended the career of one of the architects of the modern city of Los Angeles. See photos of the dam before the disaster and the ruins after the walls fell.

Since Hurricane Katrina, the hated rodents have flourished in piles of trash and blighted buildings. But when simply setting traps didn't work, city officials decided to take a more methodical approach to rat control. They're attacking the problems that invite the rats — and they're winning.