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A significant number of American workers are dipping into their retirement accounts to help pay for everyday expenses, despite warnings that it could seriously compromise their financial health. Host Michel Martin speaks with Washington Post reporter Michael Fletcher about the consequences of tapping retirement funds early.

When people refer to the ends of the earth, they invariably mention Timbuktu. The fabled West African city on the cusp of the Sahara has a mystique that has lasted for centuries.

When it came out in 1977, the album stood for everything in the music industry that a young Bob Boilen was trying to get away from. Until now, he's never looked back.

The Chicago Sun-Times went inside the stalls and found that plastic wrappers designed to automatically cover toilet seats were not keeping things spick-and-span. Don't sit down before you hear this news.

Rush Limbaugh has been spending a lot of time calling new immigration overhaul plans little more than "amnesty" for some 11 million undocumented immigrants already in this country. A lot of time, that is, except for the 15 minutes of his extremely deferential interview with one of the plan's authors, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

Home prices in the U.S. dipped a bit in November, but not enough to derail the recovery that's been taking place in the housing sector. The Case-Shiller home price index showed prices up in a year-over-year comparison. Audie Cornish talks with Yuki Noguchi.

Federal disaster aid could mean billions more for rebuilding eroded beaches. Supporters say doing so offers crucial protection against storms. But longtime critics charge it's counterproductive and a waste of taxpayer dollars, especially in an era of sea-level rise.

On the deck of a 27-foot boat off the shore of Long Island, researchers are using sonar to study the sand and sediment that washed away from the system of protective barrier islands and beaches by Hurricane Sandy.

For the past several years, Francois Brunelle has been photographing people who happen to look strikingly similar but aren't related.

A famed library and research center held books and manuscripts dating back to the 13th century. Residents say Islamist radicals torched them before fleeing the town.