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Indiana is the latest state to experiment with limiting what hospitals can charge, to try to get a handle on high health costs.

The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world: Sixty percent of the 700 to 900 deaths each year are preventable, including that of neonatal nurse Lauren Bloomstein.

More than 2,000 miners in Appalachia are dying from an advanced stage of black lung. NPR and Frontline have found the government had multiple warnings and opportunities to protect them, but didn't.

Denmark holds a weeklong festival in honor of fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen, who was born 200 years ago on April 2. Scott Simon talks with Diana Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank, translators of the author's work.

Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour discusses the war between Israel and Iran, potential fallout from U.S. airstrikes on Iran's nuclear sites, and how this may affect Tehran's authoritarian regime.

Forty percent of babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. Increasingly, those moms are over 30, at a time when teen pregnancy has fallen off a cliff and births are declining for younger women.

The election system shuddered in 2020 as Donald Trump sought to overturn the result. Now, election deniers and defenders have eyes on the nuts and bolts of the process itself.

Nurses say COVID-19 patients have sometimes been housed in the same units as uninfected patients. While officials have penalized nursing homes for such failures, hospitals have seen less scrutiny.

The declines many school districts reported last year have continued, an NPR investigation finds. What educators don't know is where those students have gone.

An All Things Considered team recently traveled along a common Colombian route taken by Venezuelans fleeing crisis in their country and discovered dramatic stories of an expanding exodus.