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Los Angeles is finding that community health workers — problem solvers who are untrained in medicine, but fluent in compassion — can be key to helping the county's sickest and neediest get better.

An expensive manhunt and long investigation ends with a finding of an elaborately staged suicide and accusations of embezzlement, shocking Lt. Charles Gliniewicz's Fox Lake neighbors.

In rare but tricky cases, disposing of an explosive device requires removing it safely from a living person. Military doctors have ways to minimize the risks, but there's no way to eliminate them.

Republicans try to redefine the Russia imbroglio as about abuse of government surveillance. What does that mean for DOJ special counsel Robert Mueller?

The Justice Department has asked the Census Bureau to reinstate a question about citizenship on the census. But some say that kind of question could jeopardize the head count's accuracy.

The world of food is vast, but we tend to hear about the same cuisines over and over again. So how do we tip the scales in favor of more diversity among food writers?

As chemical weapons inspectors assess an attack site in Douma, Syrian families from the town offer NPR witness accounts of what they describe as a chlorine strike in Douma.

The New York Times columnist knows what it's like to encounter a barrage of hate from Internet trolls. She says she heard many of their messages repeated by Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign.

Burrito-making get-togethers are sprouting up around the U.S. to distribute healthy, grab-and-go meals, as well as provide people a fun way to help out and get involved with their communities.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with political commentators Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post and Erick Erickson, who runs blog The Resurgen and hosts "The Erick Erickson Show" on WSBRadio about President Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, Trump's foreign policy in North Korea and Iran and the confirmation battle over Trump's nominee to run the CIA, Gina Haspel.