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The Biden administration is phasing out incandescent lightbulbs. Here's how to pick a longer lasting and more energy-efficient option.

Home prices are up 30% in the past year in some cities. Many people wonder if we're in another housing bubble. Some economists think prices could fall in places where homes are especially overvalued.

Around 70 percent of all American casualties in Iraq come from the use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) by insurgents. We take a closer look at this deadly problem.

Advocates for women's sports say a new Education Department survey will harm Title IX legislation. The administration says the new e-mail survey will help schools gauge interest in women's sports and allocate resources. But critics worry the survey will be ineffective -- and do more harm than good.

General Electric announces a new focus on environmental technology, in a move that may pressure the energy industry to develop policies to address toxic emissions. GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt and World Resources Institute President Jonathan Lash spoke at Monday's announcement.

William Beeman, professor of anthropology at Brown University, discusses the Iranian election results and what the outcome means for U.S.-Iran relations.

Cable companies, unlike traditional phone companies, do not have to give competing providers access to their broadband lines, according to a new Supreme Court finding. Consumer groups, along with the ACLU and companies like Microsoft and Disney, said customers would now likely pay higher costs.

Supreme Court justices decline to hear the appeals of two prominent American journalists facing jail terms. Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper face jail time on contempt charges for refusing to name sources in an investigation of a leak of a CIA agent's name.

Alex Chadwick talks with high-altitude mountain climber Ed Viesturs about his attempt to climb all 14 of the world's highest mountains without the aid of supplemental oxygen.

Author Loung Ung tells NPR's Liane Hansen about her new book, Lucky Child. The memoir describes how Ung escaped the violence of the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian conflict known as the Killing Fields, and how she and her sister reunited after a 15-year separation.