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A new study finds that for nearly 4 million poor people with severe disabilities, a key U.S. government subsidy has not kept pace with rising rents -- forcing many into sub-standard housing. NPR's Joseph Shapiro reports.

Some Iraqis are trying to find their own place in a new government, whether the United States approves or not. In the city of Kut southeast of Baghdad, a local tribal leader has occupied city hall in defiance of U-S Marines. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Washington Post reporter Peter Baker is a journalist who co-wrote the story breaking the news about Monica Lewinsky. He's just written a book about that episode of the Clinton presidency, called The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton. He writes that for all the titillation about thongs and cigars, the story was not so much about sex as it was about power.

NPR reporters Melissa Block in New York, Tovia Smith in oston, and WBGO's Steve Inskeep in Newark, N.J., share anecdotes from covering he "Blizzard of '96" -- one of the worst East Coast winter storms on record. owever, NPR's Mark Roberts is taking advantage of the unusually warm weather in enver to work on his suntan.

New figures from the 2000 Census show Hispanics now make up 13 percent of the United States' population. The new data suggests Hispanics may have overtaken blacks as the largest minority population, but critics say it depends on how the numbers are tallied. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

The Iraq Study Group presents its report on recommendations for Iraq policy today. Madeleine Brand talks to White House Correspondent Don Gonyea about President Bush's reaction to the report.

The DVB is an organization of Burmese underground videographers and reporters who try to document repression in their country, and smuggle it out of the country to put the news of their homeland before the world. Some of what they shot in 2007 is the subject of a new documentary.

occurring in Austin, Texas this weekend at the National Issues Convention, where presidential candidates will have to answer to the average voter.

of a former FBI agent, lawyers are sparring over the use of classified material in pre-trial maneuvering.

showing that pre-screening women for the sexually-transmitted disease, chlamydia, can reduce the incidence of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease.