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An engineering report in Oct. 2018 warned of "major structural damage" in the Florida building that collapsed last week. The next month, a town inspector said the building was in "very good shape."

Bob Mondello looks at a new documentary about the economic meltdown and examines where it falls in a spectrum of current fact-based films.

FRONTLINE documentarians Tom Casciato and Kathleen Hughes spent decades following two working-class families who lost well-paying manufacturing jobs and then struggled to regain their way of life.

Popular DNA ancestry tests don't always find what people expect. That is because of how DNA rearranges itself when egg meets sperm — and the quirks of genetic databases.

As health officials sound the alarm about the pandemic's impact on children's mental health, music, drama and other art classes are helping kids adjust to being in-person again.

The controversial entrepreneur is seeking redemption and some people are ready for him to try. Tickets have sold out. But he still owes $26 million in restitution to the people he fleeced.

Experiments in people have long shown that the presence of indifferent bystanders hurts the chances that someone will help a stranger in an emergency. Rats, it turns out, behave the same way.

A new museum in Queensbury, New York, aims to draw pinball wizards and machine tinkerers alike.

(Airs 06/10/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Less than a month after the mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signs ten gun control bills into law, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on his interview with the Governor this week, and a new poll finds Americans would like to raise the age to buy a firearm to 21.

(Airs 04/07/22 @ 1 p.m.) An encore interview - WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with the late, award-winning Director and Producer Arthur Penn. Penn was most known for the movies Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Little Big Man (1970), and The Miracle Worker (1962). He died on September 28, 2010, in Manhattan, New York City, New York.