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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, after the Biden Administration proposed a new national standard for staffing nursing homes.

Ukraine and Russia give different estimates of how many have been displaced by fighting in the eastern provinces, but they agree that people are being forced from their homes in battle-scarred cities.

The flooding after Hurricane Harvey damaged at least 100,000 homes in the Houston area. Now many of those frustrated homeowners are eager to sell and agents and investors are ready to snatch them up.

Assisted living-type facilities often are subject to less scrutiny than nursing homes. Investigations in Vermont and elsewhere have revealed patterns of poor care and deaths.

A rare blue ghost firefly is known to flicker in the southern Appalachia region. Now, they've been spotted in central Kentucky.

The World Food Program warns the humanitarian crisis triggered by war in the Middle East could ripple around the globe.

The at-home nasal swab kit simultaneously tests for COVID-19 and two strains of the flu.

President Biden wants to spend $200 billion renovating old homes or building affordable new ones. It's a move that would fight climate change in a way that makes people's lives better.

Oxfam brought four refugees to tour Trump's boyhood home in Queens, N.Y., which had been available for rent through Airbnb, to make a point about immigration.

With COVID-19 cases surging, many states are restricting the size of gatherings. But, how do you police what people do in their own homes?