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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Karen Attiah, the global opinions editor at The Washington Post, about the role that mainstream media played in the Trump presidency and the rise of political extremism.

Seven-year-old Jakelin Caal died in U.S. custody in December. Linguist Geoff Nunberg says her death might have been prevented had border agents spoken the Mayan language Q'eqchi'.

The president and his lawyers may be close to submitting a take-home exam of sorts to special counsel Robert Mueller, but so many other points about this imbroglio remain unresolved.

Women across India have recently been going public about sexual assault and harassment. Many say they draw strength from the struggle of one woman: Bhanwari Devi.

Rep. Devin Nunes easily won his last re-election. Now the chair of the House Intelligence Committee is in for the tightest race of his political life, thanks to his views on the Russia investigations.

The South Bend, Ind., mayor and presidential candidate has been dealing with the aftermath of a fatal shooting in his hometown in which a white officer shot a black man.

Now that Colorado has expanded Medicaid coverage to include more low-income residents, hospitals are better off financially. But that hasn't stopped them from shifting costs to other insured patients.

After years of devastating civil war and broken peace deals, South Sudan is at a crossroads again. While many displaced refugees are still afraid to return home, others see big reasons for hope.

For decades the Pap test was the only option for cervical cancer screening. Now there's the HPV test, too. A federal task force says that for most women, either test will do just fine.

As fighting escalates in northwest Syria, the U.N. estimates that thousands of Syrians are being displaced every day.