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Lines of people wait outside the George R. Brown Convention Center, which has been turned into a shelter for people seeking refuge from Tropical Storm Harvey, in downtown Houston.

'You Only Get One Life In This World': Voices From Houston's Convention Center

Shelters around Houston are struggling to keep up with the thousands of people forced from their homes. The downtown convention center is filled beyond capacity, and people are still arriving.

People carry signs addressing the issue of sexual harassment at a #MeToo rally outside of Trump International Hotel on December 9, 2017 in New York City.

POLL: The 'Inappropriate' Office Behaviors Most Pervasive In Workplaces

Over 9 in 10 people think both gossip and deliberate touching are inappropriate at work, and many have seen it happen. Yet, almost no one admitted to doing either in a new Ipsos/NPR poll.

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney departs after a television interview at the White House in September.

Mulvaney Shows Up For Work At Consumer Watchdog Group, As Leadership Feud Deepens

Deputy Director Leandra English argues that she is the rightful head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. But the White House has made a rival appointment — OMB Director Mick Mulvaney.

Kids who saw an ad for legal marijuana were more likely to report smoking it one year later, according to a Rand Corp. report.

In The Age Of Legalization, Talking To Kids About Marijuana Gets Tougher

Now that recreational marijuana use in California and other states is legal for adults and marketers are ramping up ads, youth drug educators fear that kids may think it's safe for them to light up.

Forget 2016, Author Ronald Shafer Says 1840 Was When Campaigns Got Ugly

In the book The Carnival Campaign, author Ronald Shafer argues that the unsavory hallmarks of presidential campaigns actually began during the presidential contest of 1840.

Xiaoxing Xi, a Temple University physics professor, speaks in front of a photo of Sherry Chen, a federal government worker, at a September 2015 Washington, D.C., press conference about the spying charges against them that were dropped. Xi says his wife and daughters were marched out of their bedrooms at gunpoint when he was arrested in May 2015.

The Fine Line Between Countering Security Threats And Racial Profiling

A U.S. nuclear engineer is accused of spying for China. Chinese economic espionage costs the U.S. billions each year. The case raises questions about whether Chinese-Americans are unfairly targeted.

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