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U.S. public transit is notoriously expensive to build compared to other countries. A $837 million subway station in New York City illustrates why these projects come with such a high price tag.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned those protesting the country's presidential election: Accept the outcome or face the consequences. Khamenei dismissed allegations of fraud, saying President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won last week's election decisively.

The trial of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on corruption charges began Friday in Jerusalem. Among other things, Olmert is accused of receiving illegal contributions from a Jewish-American businessman.

The climate talks opened Monday in Copenhagen, with more than 190 nations represented. The U.S. and China have pledged some actions already, but negotiators so far haven't even agreed about what the overall deal will look like.

The New York Independent System Operator finds potential power deficits in New York City as soon as 2025, and says the rest of the state is at risk as well.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has charged a white father and son in the shooting death of an unarmed black man. The arrests follow the release of cellphone video of the February altercation.

The U.S. trucking industry is getting more diverse as it battles a driver shortage. One group is working to recruit LGBTQ+ drivers. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on July 22, 2023.)

For two years now, exhibitions of human cadavers have been traveling the country, shown in science museums and other spaces. The shows have been dogged by criticism... and one delicate ethical concern.

The killing of a 17-year-old boy, captured on video, shocked the country and stirred up long-simmering tensions between young people and police in disadvantaged neighborhoods around France.

President Bush on Tuesday led grieving students, faculty and families in a convocation in Blacksburg, Va., for the 32 people killed Monday by a lone gunman in a shooting on the Virginia Tech campus. The dead and injured were remembered in speeches and prayers. Seung-Hui Cho shot himself after the rampage. Police are investigating what drove him to his murderous assault.