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Harvey is finally out of the picture — but the storm's devastating effects on Houston and other parts of Texas and Louisiana are still coming into focus.

In honor of Labor Day weekend, we spotlight the work of the late author Studs Terkel, who spent the early 1970s talking to people about their jobs for his collection of oral histories titled Working.

If you sit too much during middle age — at work and at home — your ability to exercise or even walk in late decades is at risk, a study hints. And, of course, your risk of heart disease climbs, too.

With another federal budget deadline looming, there's a push to add provisions to a spending bill that would help community health centers and other providers of health services for low-income people.

Actor Doug Jones has had a long and prolific career playing some of Hollywood's most recognizable monsters. His latest role is the fishy Amphibian Man in Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water.

Medical debt is down across the country. In states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, the reduction is sharper.

A research report says more lives will be saved by putting autonomous cars on the road sooner rather than later, even if they're not perfect. Waymo deployed some in Arizona — without backup drivers.

Half of American Indians living in majority-Native areas say they or a family member feels he or she has been treated unfairly by the courts, according to an NPR poll.

Tapper's new novel, The Hellfire Club, takes place in 1954 during Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Communist "witch hunt" — a time he describes as "very resonant" with the current political climate.

Researchers administered doses of azithromycin to 190,238 children in sub-Saharan Africa. The death rate dropped, but fear of antibiotic resistance looms.

One campaign ad in Georgia, in which the candidate for governor points a gun at a young man, has spurred national outrage. Clinging to gun rights has been a strategy in some GOP primary races.

Shah Marai with Agence France-Presse was among those killed in twin suicide blasts in Kabul. "Life seems to be even more difficult than under the Taliban because of the insecurity," he wrote in 2016.

Dozens of people in bright orange shirts told the New Orleans City Council they supported a new power plant. Now The Lens reports that at least some were paid to show up and told what to say.

When Greg O'Brien found out he'd be a grandfather, he was excited. He was also sad. His granddaughter, he knew, would never know the real him.

The Democrat is trying to piece together a coalition that welcomes disaffected Republicans but still appeals to traditional Democrats.

The decision by the International Olympic Committee follows last year's McLaren report, which said more than 1,000 Russian athletes were involved in manipulating doping controls.

The director spoke to the House Judiciary Committee just days after President Trump said the FBI's reputation was the "worst in history!"

The big change is that Florida has gone from leaning in Joe Biden's direction back to its traditional spot as a toss-up state.

There would be enormous consequences were the court to throw out the ACA, which has survived twice in the high court. But the court's makeup is very different now than on those past occasions.

Parents desperate to get their kids outdoors and offline are choosing wilderness schools for their kids, but poor, urban kids are missing out. Educators in Kingston, N.Y., are trying to change that.