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Extreme heat killed more people in the U.S. last year than hurricanes, floods, lightning or tornadoes. One expert says it doesn't have to be this way.

Following in the footsteps of former presidential hopeful and New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, Edwards will set off on a 12-city tour of poor America this weekend.

The Feb. 6 earthquake and its aftershocks left nearly 3 million displaced and in need of shelter. In the hard-hit city of Adiyaman, families wait for promises of new homes to be fulfilled.

Schools in Salt Lake City are going big on retrofits to meet ambitious clean energy goals — largely thanks to the activism of students.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Barbara Buffaloe, mayor of Columbia, Mo., who's part of the U.S. Conference of Mayors delegation at the summit, to talk about her city's effort to tackle climate change.

WDET's Ryan Hooper reports what started as a museum show about Black realist painters in Detroit has turned into a search, and then more recognition, for a forgotten artist named LeRoy Foster.

The struggling Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts and Grossinger Motors Arena came under new shared management over a year ago. Director of Arts and Entertainment Anthony Nelson was given a strict mandate to start turning a profit. Recent sellouts at the BCPA are signs of a turnaround.

The shipment is the first in an operation that U.S. military officials anticipate could scale up to 150 truckloads a day entering the Gaza Strip as Israel presses in on the southern city of Rafah.

Johnson studied with Ansel Adams in the 1940s and became known as one of the foremost photographers of San Francisco's Black urban culture.

Police launched a manhunt in Barcelona on Thursday for the campaigner for Catalan independence, who made a sensational return to Catalonia — and a getaway after a speech in the city.