The national hospital company Steward Health Care is in bankruptcy after piling up billions of dollars in debt.

This year, some American Muslims say they feel politically homeless — not understood or welcomed by either Republicans or Democrats.

Despite a federal moratorium, there have already been thirteen state executions this year. And in the next week, five people are scheduled to die.

Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees have fled to Chad, where they're facing increasingly difficult conditions as their presence strains local resources and humanitarian aid organizations.

New data samples from the Wuhan market points to an intermingling of SARS-CoV-2, raccoon dogs and humans. The authors of a new paper say it bolsters the animal origin theory. Other researchers object.

Former President Donald Trump has lots of support in rural Morgan County, Ga., where immigration is a major concern.

Where there are humans, there are rats. But new research says we still have a lot to learn about our furry, often reviled, companions.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with three women, all Democrats, about Kamala Harris' historic candidacy and why they plan on voting for her.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about "scuba-diving" lizards, a trick to turn a mouse's skin transparent and whether finger counting helps kids' math skills.

Ryan Routh, the alleged apparent would-be assassin of Donald Trump, has a complex and confusing past. He spent more than half of his life in Greensboro, N.C., and had many legal run-ins.