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Earlier this year, Fonda made headlines for delivering a fiery critique of the Trump administration during a SAG-AFTRA award acceptance speech. "This is not the time to go inward," Fonda says.

The virus took the world by storm. It was declared a "public health emergency of continental concern." What's the current status? With the U.S. aid cuts, one doctor says, "We're flying blind."

A year ago, on Aug. 14, 2024, the World Health Organization declared mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Why are health experts so frustrated by the world's response?

One lucky Star Wars fan won the lightsaber on Sept. 4. Prior to the auction, NPR's Andrew Mambo interviewed Brandon Alinger, the COO of the auction house Propstore, which hosted the sale.

Davey Johnson, an All-Star second baseman who won the World Series twice with the Baltimore Orioles as a player and managed the New York Mets to the title in 1986, died Friday.

South Korean golfer Inbee Park, 24, has done something no athlete has done since Babe Zaharias in 1950: win the first three major women's tournaments of the year. On Sunday, she won the U.S. Women's Open in Southhampton, New York.

The state is growing fast, and most of that growth is in the Hispanic population. If Democrats could capture a large share of Hispanic votes — as they have elsewhere — they would be a lot more competitive in Texas. But the state's GOP leader says he's not worried.

Under the funding agreement, Orange County pays $5 million and Orlando is responsible for the rest along with any cost overruns.

Donald Trump has nominated Jay Clayton, a Wall Street lawyer, to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Critics say it's another example of Trump packing his Cabinet with Wall Street insiders.

They went on strike a month ago, asking for a raise and better training and equipment. So far the government hasn't met their demands.

It's illegal for casinos in Nevada to take bets from out of state. But that didn't stop one subsidiary of a Wall Street firm from trying.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Regina Spektor about her latest album, Remember Us to Life. This story originally aired on Oct. 3, 2016 on All Things Considered.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Democratic Sen. Jack Reed, the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, about Thursday's hearing on Russia's alleged role in election year hacking.

The intelligence community's finding that Russia was behind cyber hacks affecting the U.S. election has exposed rifts between Republican lawmakers, intelligence officials and President-elect Trump.

New guidelines recommend introducing babies to peanut containing foods in the first year of their lives. The recommendations are based on studies that show early introduction of peanuts to infants reduces their risk of developing a peanut allergy later in life.

In the debate over Russian hacking, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been praised by President-elect Donald Trump despite his controversial past.

A Facebook Live video brought to the attention of Chicago police shows a bound man being tortured by four captors. The four were charged with hate crimes and other felonies on Thursday.

2016 was a year of failure for political polling in several Western democracies. France, Britain and the U.S. were all taken by surprise after polls underestimated the support for conservative presidential candidates and Brexit. Now, pollsters in all three countries are reflecting on what went wrong.

From birth through age 30 or so, our ability to recognize faces keeps improving, research shows. At first, kids discern adult faces better than other kids' mugs. Not so after adolescence.

Beth Morrison is not your typical moneyed arts patron — but over the past decade, she's managed to gather the funding and venue support to produce works by some of today's most innovative composers.

Russia's alleged election-year hacking takes center stage when leaders of the intelligence community testify before Congress.

Gavi, which helps countries purchase and distribute vaccines, is among thousands of programs determined to be "inconsistent with the national interest or Agency policy priorities."

A judge is scheduled to consider a bid from a Humana subsidary during a hearing this week. Meantime, there are allegations of Medicare overbilling by TVH and conflicts of interest involving its debt financier.

It is the first time the IPC has declared a famine in the Middle East.

Guitarist and vocalist Brent Hinds, who was a member of the heavy metal band Mastodon, died this week. For over two decades, Hinds and his bandmates were known within the metal scene for complex riffs and epic storytelling. The 51-year-old was involved in a motorcycle accident in Atlanta.