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As Americans struggle to find affordable housing, cities are realizing their own rules have made it too hard and expensive to build the homes they need. Now, some cities are trying to change that.

Paris, the most densely populated European city, faces catastrophic heat because of global warming. Cool places such as underground parking lots could be where vulnerable populations could cool off.

It is hard to escape the impression that the more Congress holds people in contempt, the more people have contempt for Congress.

Four more heat pump manufacturers have developed products that can operate at 100% heating capacity at 5 degrees without the use of supplemental heat, according to the Department of Energy.

Phillips, 28, never expected to go into politics. But after she got devastating news about her pregnancy, everything changed.

Avian influenza is being detected in more dairy herds. Scientists are paying close attention to how the virus is changing and what that means for its pandemic potential.

A gunman in southwest England killed five people, including a 3-year-old girl, before turning his weapon on himself, police say.

Alvin Campbell Jr. is accused of sexually assaulting nine women over three years and will go on trial for rape and other charges. His sister is Massachusetts' Attorney General Andrea Campbell.

The new CEO of The Washington Post and his hand-picked news chief come from a tradition of rough-and-tumble British journalism that plays loose with ethics, compared to U.S. media.

Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner.