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NPR is highlighting Indigenous stories from across its network in celebrations of Indigenous Peoples Day.

The World Food Programme, a U.N. agency and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is facing cuts in its budget that experts are describing as "unprecedented."

Trump's pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS worries pediatricians. In Florida, the childhood vaccination rate is decreasing more rapidly under a Surgeon General who is skeptical of vaccines.

Scientists and investors born outside the U.S. played crucial roles in the development of COVID-19 vaccines — a remarkable vindication for the argument that innovation depends on immigration.

On its last weekday in power, the Biden Administration has chosen the next batch of drugs up for price negotiation in Medicare.

Schools are grappling with how to prepare students for the possibility of gun violence without traumatizing them.

Sudan's capital city Khartoum has been liberated after more than two years of civil war. But as NPR's Emmanuel Akinwotu witnessed when he travelled there, it has been left in ruins.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Keith Humphreys, professor at Stanford, about the falling prison population in the U.S., and the reasons behind that trend.

Experts in the mortgage industry are skeptical. Buyers would pay less each month, but would end up paying more over time. Here's what to know about the proposed 50-year mortgages.

Next month, South Dakotans will decide whether to expand Medicaid to 42,500 state residents. Democratic candidates elsewhere are making it a part of their pitch to flip GOP-held governors' offices.