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Health insurer UnitedHealthcare plans to cut SilverSneakers, a popular fitness benefit, for 2.5 million people with the company's Medigap and Medicare Advantage coverage.

Some states have begun using Medicare reimbursement rates to recalibrate how they pay hospitals. If the gamble pays off, more private-sector employers could start doing the same thing.

A Senate hearing on Tuesday featuring pharmaceutical executives will tackle many issues raised in the historic Kefauver hearings, which led to tougher drug regulation. High prices remain a concern.

The president's State of the Union address laid out a series of goals, including lowering prescription prices, pursuing an end to the HIV epidemic and increasing research for childhood cancers.

With high drug prices a hot election issue, drugmakers and the Trump administration are jockeying over how to bring prices down. But critics say the proposed fixes don't have enforcement teeth.

Consumers favor safeguards that help people with a history of health problems still get insurance. In the heat of the midterm campaigns, politicians' arguments don't always add up.

Federal officials say loosening the regulation of association plans will give small businesses a more affordable health insurance option, but critics are wary.

A pricing tool embedded in many prescribing and medical records systems lets doctors see how much each patient is likely to pay out of pocket for medicine. But the tools could be better, doctors say.

Some seniors got dozens of COVID tests they never ordered. Bad actors may have used seniors' Medicare information to improperly bill the federal government — and could do it again, investigators say.

Honorees from the World Health Organization's Health for all Film Festival tell stories of pain — but also of resilience and hope — all in 8 minutes or less.

Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, is pledging to make his state the "electric mobility capital" of the country without embracing the climate realities that are helping drive the transition.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the Wagner private military contractor, made his most direct challenge to the Kremlin yet on Friday, calling for a rebellion aimed at ousting Russia's defense minister.

The city of Zephyrhills is about to issue a hold on new developments for the next year as it reaches the maximum amount it's allowed to withdraw from the aquifer. The head of the local water district says it's more about the growth than not having enough water.

Eight sushi chefs compete at specific, well-designed challenges for head judge Masaharu Morimoto and celebrity chef judges in this six-part competition show on the Roku Channel.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, who's retiring — more than two years after becoming the State Department's first chief diversity officer.

This is the year that a lot of the money from Biden's 2021 infrastructure law starts flowing to states and local governments. Mitch Landrieu is tasked with implementing and promoting the effort.

The private military contractor Wagner Group launched a brief uprising this weekend, raising big questions about the Russian military and the conduct of the "special military operation" in Ukraine.

The Marvelettes, three powerful political insiders in Orangeburg, S.C. — Labrena Aiken-Furtick, Gilda Cobb-Hunter and Baraka Cheeseboro — talk with Michele Norris about negative reaction to the injection of race into Democratic primary politics.

How your race and ethnicity are reported for the U.S. census, federal surveys and other forms may change. That could affect data used to redraw voting maps, enforce civil rights and guide research.

President Trump has ordered the Justice Department to file a request to modify a court agreement known as the Flores settlement to allow for immigrant families to be detained together at the border. The settlement has governed the detention of immigrant children since the mid-80s.

In Nashville: Scenes from the New American South, photographer Heidi Ross and novelist Ann Patchett explore the multiple identities that shape their changing city.

The retailer once triumphed over rivals as a "category killer" with its blue coupons. Now, it's become rudderless, turbulent and broke. Here's what happened.

Congressional investigators are sifting through thousands of newly released e-mails linked to the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. The Justice Department released some 3,000 pages of material Monday night.

The introduction of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua as Nigeria's new president marks a significant point in the nation's history — the first time since independence from Britain in 1960 that Nigeria has witnessed the peaceful transition of power from one elected civilian leader to another.

Republican congressman, presidential hopeful and Internet phenomenon Ron Paul has distinguished himself from the pack with his anti-big-government record. And his fundraising efforts are outpacing other, better-known candidates.