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A youth mental health crisis and a shortage of therapists and other care providers who take insurance are pushing many U.S. families into financial ruin. But it's rarely acknowledged as medical debt.

Health care experts say that confirmed deaths represent a fraction of the true number of deaths due to COVID because of limited testing.

Health disparities between African-Americans and Caucasians are nothing new. An art exhibit in Winston-Salem, N.C., lets patients demonstrate the disparities themselves through photos and writing. Rose Hoban of member station WUNC reports.

Zoe Turner survived a flood that killed 20 neighbors. But now that she's graduated high school, she's trying to leave behind the lingering damage and move on to the next phase of her life.

As the top lawyer for the Obama State Department, Harold Koh is defending a lot of things that surprise his friends on the left — including U.S. involvement in Libya, and the use of American drones that target people in Pakistan and Yemen.

The attorney general fired back at criticism by the president on Thursday with a guarantee that so long as he runs the Department of Justice, its professionals will operate by the book.

The show "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

The book chain Barnes & Noble is staging its biggest expansion in over a decade. (Story originally aired on All Things Considered on March 3, 2023. It's been updated for today's broadcast.)

Answer that question, and you get a picture of inflation in the whole economy. We try to figure out why ice cream hasn't changed its price in years, and why it might finally rise this summer.

Greg Miller's new series captures the vulnerability and peace of children as they quietly wait for their bus.

Kathryn Redmond remembers Mona Fort, who died from COVID at age 67, with the song My Way by Frank Sinatra. The song accompanied the photo tribute at her funeral.

Liz Truss' resignation as Prime Minister is being blamed on a faulty economic plan. But her fate should serve as a warning to other countries that may have to grapple with an inconceivable choice.

After St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch's announcement to scrap plans to redevelop Tropicana Field and start over, here's a look at how we got here over the last two years.

An Australian company has lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct mammoth. The high-tech treat isn't available to eat yet.

The reaction to Roe vs. Wade was immense, but not immediately so. It took months and years for the anti-abortion movement to fully form, to organize and gain political power.

As Halloween approaches, NPR movie critic Bob Mondello remembers scares he had to conjure up in his first job.

With Christmas falling on a Sunday, some Protestant pastors are canceling services to allow their congregation to spend time at home.

Pinellas Park High’s School Resource Officer was at Ground Zero in 2001.

Modi heads to China for first time in seven years to show India has alternatives to Washington amid crushing tariffs. He goes as a weakened leader of a weakened country.

When Albert Pujols left the Cardinals in 2011, it was right after the team won the World Series. There was some hurt then, but time seems to have healed those wounds as he makes a return to St. Louis.

The U.S. and China appear to be on the verge of a trade war. Columnist and commentator Cokie Roberts answers listener questions about the history of U.S.-China relations.

Starting Jan. 1, non-U.S. citizens will have to pay an additional $100 each to enter 11 of America's most popular national parks.

Zambia was due to host Rights Con, the world's biggest digital rights gathering, this week -- but abruptly canceled the event. Organizers blame Chinese pressure for the decision.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Alyona Synenko of the International Committee of the Red Cross, about help for hostages in Gaza, and humanitarian aid amid Israel's bombardment.

A 2021 military coup plunged Myanmar into a brutal civil war, ousting Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government. For years, the world isolated the junta. That isolation is breaking down.