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Fifty years after the study was revealed to the public and halted, the organization that made funeral payments for the men who died publicly apologized to descendants of the study's victims.

It's another discombobulating moment in the pandemic, with conflicting signs of where the virus is heading and what people should do about it on a daily basis. Here's how to cope.

Over the weekend, hundreds of children traveling solo across the U.S. border were transferred to a detention center in Nogales, Arizona. David Greene talks to Los Angeles Times reporter Cindy Carcamo.

Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance are employing a new media strategy: They're giving lots of lengthy, sit-down interviews to male podcasters and influencers.

NPR's Daniel Estrin talks with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about Serena Williams' retirement announcement and a baseball all-star's 80-game suspension.

Five years later, the first-ever winner of the NPR College Podcast Challenge looks back at her early work in journalism and talks to other participants about where their stories have taken them.

The Complete Wimmen's Comix collects two decades of the groundbreaking all-women series. Critic Etelka Lehoczky calls it a "frenetic, anarchic, occasionally kamikaze production."

Former Nixon administration attorney John Dean and a North Carolina divorce lawyer warn that if you think you have nothing to hide, think again.

In Rock the Kasbah, he plays a tough-luck talent agent who finds a special voice in Afghanistan. In real life, the agentless Murray found something else after losing a phone: a "vacation from myself."

It's the perfect job for spooky season. Watch 13 Stephen King movies before Halloween and record your experience — down to your heart rate. In return you get paid $1,300.

In honor of the interstate highway system's 50th anniversary, we talk to three engineers about their favorite parts of the system.

By News Service of FloridaCalling arguments by the state Office of Public Counsel “premature, unnecessary and baseless,” Florida Power & Light is asking…

It's Mother's Day weekend. Prepare to make the day special with NPR's handy guide — filled with reads, listens and gift ideas that celebrate the highs and lows of parenthood.

Thousands of coal miners who are suffering from an advanced stage of black lung disease fear that, if Congress doesn't act, a government fund set up to help them won't have enough money.

In an interview with NPR's All Things Considered, Knox talks about what it's like to be followed by fictionalized versions of her life.

Leading up to the premier race has been a series of unpredictable airborne crashes — and no one can explain why. Officials have mandated a lower driving speed, while engineers work to find a solution.

Director Douglas Tirola's new film, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, chronicles the rise and fall of National Lampoon. Tirola tells NPR the magazine's power came from its willingness to go after anyone.

Douglas Letter retired from the Justice Department after four decades of defending administration policies, no matter whether Democrats or Republicans have been in charge.

With excessive heat advisories in effect across the U.S., here's how to avoid heat-related illnesses.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Dr. Sonia Angell, director of California's Department of Public Health about the recent spike of coronavirus cases during the state's phased reopenings.

A new report from the office of the Massachusetts Attorney General's office details egregious misconduct and extensive drug use on the job by a former employee of the state crime lab.

Set in various fantastic and creepy landscapes, Dan Chaon's latest book, Await Your Reply, weaves together three separate narratives in what reviewer Maureen Corrigan calls a "spinning nebula of a novel."

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House, about how Iran will resume patrolling the streets and enforcing the strict dress code.

Sarah Moss' beautifully written novel is set in the 1970s in the rugged countryside of the far north of England, where a group of campers are reenacting the daily lives of Iron Age Britons.

Hilary Mantel's new book, Bring Up the Bodies, is the sequel to Wolf Hall, which won worldwide acclaim. It is also the latest in a planned trilogy about Thomas Cromwell. Historically, the royal adviser is considered an unscrupulous bully. In Mantel's books, he is — like any other man — much more than his reputation.