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Nearly two years after the recession ended, the pace of construction is inching along at less than half the level considered healthy. Housing starts fell 10.6 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 523,000, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. And fewer new homes mean fewer jobs.

Nearly two years after the recession ended, the pace of construction is inching along at less than half the level considered healthy. Housing starts fell 10.6 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 523,000, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. And fewer new homes mean fewer jobs.

Washington, D.C., police were in an awkward position during this week's standoff involving the U.S. Institute of Peace when DOGE and Trump staffers sought access to the building to install a new president.

Yamamoto's postwar childhood in Japan shaped his interest in the interplay of architecture and community. The jury of the prestigious architecture award cited the intergenerational power of his work.

with business interests now beginning to find that building solar power equipment can be profitable.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Sarajevo on the efforts to re-build Bosnia's economy and infrastructure. After three-and-a-half years of war, there are no jobs, no industry, housing is limited and the country's transportation, water and electricity infrastructure is wrecked. The World Bank estimates the cost for rebuilding Bosnia at more than five-billion-dollars.

NPR'S Margo Adler reports that at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, the Israeli flag is draped outside the building wall, and inside students walk about in shock, or sit in the sanctuary praying. This is where Matt Eisenfeld was a student. He was one of two Americans killed in a suicide bombing in Israel

IBM built its supercomputer Deep Blue and it subsequently became the world's first computer to win the world championship in chess. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on plans to build the world's fastest new computer to solve what is probably biology's most complex problem -- how proteins fold. (4:30) See http://foldingathome.stanford.edu.

Aileen LeBlanc of member station WYSO reports from Xenia, Ohio, on a tornado that hit the city shortly after seven o'clock last night. The storm flattened buildings and knocked down power lines. One person was killed, and over a hundred were injured.

NPR's Jack Speer reports on the silence that could be coming soon to San Francisco's city hall. A new measure proposes a ban on cell phones in the building.