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An ongoing NPR investigation into military health care reveals that four out of 10 U.S. military bases are located within a federally designated health care desert.

India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades.

Pope Francis welcomed the LGBT community into the Catholic Church. What will his successor mean for the community?

New economic research shows Americans are no longer as likely to make more than their parents did at the same age. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to New York Times columnist David Leonhardt about what he calls the "Index of the American Dream."

While too much shouldn't be made out of off-year elections, today's will be the first major electoral sign of the political mood and what voters think of the president.

Simon Hankinson, senior research fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about federal efforts to enforce immigration law.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar dropped a scathing rebuke against Drake in a new song. NPR's A Martinez talks about the fascination with diss tracks with Noah A. McGee of the online magazine The Root.

It's day two of the French Open. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Sports Illustrated executive editor Jon Wertheim about what to expect from tennis' aging greats and up-and-comers.

Several of the artworks in the exhibition are coming to the U.S. for the first time. "He never saw a wall that he couldn't envision covered with a large Tintoretto," says co-curator Robert Echols.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to GOP strategist Alex Conant about the Republicans running in the 2024 presidential primaries. Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis and S.C. Sen. Tim Scott are the latest to announce.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Kathy Sullivan, an American geologist, who has made history by reaching the deepest point on the surface of the Earth.

Paul Kingsnorth self-published The Wake, his tale of the 11th-century Norman conquest of England, written in a pastiche of Old and modern English — and was startled when it became a smash hit.

Known for their energy and bombast, Donald Trump's rally speeches have become increasingly erratic. The former president is visibly tired amid a whirlwind schedule in the final days of the campaign.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about President Biden's latest student loan debt forgiveness plan.

Supported by USAID, the Ethiopian clinic provides lifesaving medicine for HIV-positive kids and teens to suppress the virus. First came the 90-day freeze — and now an immediate termination of support.

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss the NBA and NHL playoffs.

Fixated on a UK sex abuse scandal from 15 years ago, Elon Musk has been trolling British officials, prompting a rebuke from the prime minister and worry over what this portends for U.S. policy.

The International Association of Chiefs of Police has issued two resolutions focused on ICE agents' use of face masks and heated comments around policing coming from influential leaders. Ari Shapiro speaks with Terrence Cunningham, a retired police chief and head of the IACP.

Texas Rep. Al Green, a Democrat, was officially censured Thursday in a vote in the House following his protest on Tuesday during President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress.

In northern California, a group of volunteers spend every night from late fall through winter as crossing guards–escorting migrating salamanders across a rural road.

The music superproducer Quincy Jones died Sunday night at age 91. We revisit a conversation he had with NPR's Michele Norris in 2008.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Ralph Basham, the director of the Secret Service during the George W. Bush administration, about Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle's decision to resign.

President Donald Trump says he has agreed to sell the nation's most advanced fighter jet to Saudi Arabia despite concerns that China could gain access to the plane's vaunted American technology.

The plan includes many of Russian President Vladimir Putin's demands. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that his country is at "truly one of the most difficult moments in our history."