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HIV remains a problem in the U.S. because people don't use life-saving prevention and treatments. COVID is heading down the same path. Here are insights from people fighting on the frontlines of HIV.

The former New Jersey governor also tells NPR that he has "great faith and confidence" in special counsel Robert Mueller and that Trump's team has made "a lot of really bad personnel choices."

Out-of-state militias have arrived to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border, raising tensions and fear in tiny Arivaca, Ariz.

Journalists David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna were killed in Afghanistan last year on a reporting trip. Our investigation found that the story of their deaths is not what we originally reported.

Kenny "The Jet" Smith won two NBA titles and has been a longtime basketball analyst with TNT's "Inside Basketball."

Milton Friedman has died at the age of 94. Friedman was a leading economist and a Nobel prize winner, known for an ardent belief in personal freedom and the free markets. Russell Roberts, economics professor at George Mason University, and Allan Meltzer, professor of political economy at Carnegie Mellon, discuss the life of the economic scholar.

As the nation starved the public health system intended to protect communities against disease, staffing and funding fell faster and further in the Sunshine State, leaving it especially unprepared for the worst health crisis in a century.

The 20 finalists for the 2004 National Book Awards were announced today, and for the first time in the awards' 55-year history, all five of the fiction finalists are women. Greta Cunningham of Minnesota Public Radio reports.

Patients who couldn't see a doctor earlier in the pandemic or were too afraid to go to a hospital have finally become too sick to stay away. Many ERs now struggle to cope with an onslaught of need.

Forget the diva stereotype: Opera careers are tough, and often strict. But as concert halls reopen after months of shutdown, more than a few singers are showing newfound creativity.

In her latest book, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin explores how Lincoln's extraordinary political acumen helped him overcome the obstacles of his presidency.

Congress is currently busy with a number of hot-button issues, from filibusters to bankruptcy, Terri Schiavo to Tom DeLay. But according to a Washington Post-ABC poll, it's the economy that's worrying average Americans. Ed Gordon talks about the U.S. economy with Julianne Malveaux, economist and author of Unfinished Business: A Democrat and Republican Take on the Most Important Issues Women Face, and Tim Kane, Bradley Fellow in labor policy at the Heritage Foundation and former senior economist with the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.

In Seoul, South Korea, a U.S. Army criminal investigator is charged with settling the spirit of a long dead American solider in Seoul, Korea. This book is the sixth in Martin Limon's Sueno and Bascom series.

Verizon Wireless has announced that it will offer the Apple iPhone in February. Even before the news, Verizon and AT&T fought publicly over who has the best network and phone technology. Their advertising battles summon memories of previous ad wars such as Mac versus PC and Coke versus Pepsi.

Here's what you need to know ahead of the 2022 general election for the Florida Supreme Court, appointed judges, and appeals court judges.

Democratic leaders in California and Oregon are becoming more open to using involuntary psychiatric commitment to combat homelessness, drug abuse and untreated mental illness.

The Democrat said "half" of Trump supporters are in a "basket of deplorables." She said she regrets saying half, but when distrust is this high, comments like that can make it harder to govern.

This wrinkled ol' pal, found across much of the U. S., may be in decline. A huge study in North Carolina plans to track box turtles for 100 years, to learn how to best protect them.

Moderna is currently developing a promising, yet still unproven, vaccine against the coronavirus. But Moderna executives have already sold tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in the company.

NPR's Eyder Peralta recently visited Nicaragua for the first time in a decade, gaining rare access to a nation that is hostile to journalists and known as the Western Hemisphere's newest dictatorship.

Sam Brooker and Ruby Amanfu are not the likeliest of musical pairings. He's from Wisconsin, and is into guitar. She hails from Ghana, was raised in Nashville, and has roots planted firmly in the black church. But together, they have discovered the power of collaboration. In June, host Michel Martin spoke with Sam & Ruby about how their synergy in music is strengthened by their off-stage romance. The duo also plays songs from their new album, 'The Hear and the Now.'

DJ Kool Herc is considered the first DJ to isolate the breaks --the most danceable beats in a record — and repeat them, to keep the dancers going. Originally broadcast in 2005.

The night wasn't about kitsch for her. Writer Danyel Smith fulfilled the real dreams of her 13-year-old self when she saw the pop singer live on Broadway.

Two dozen states, from Florida to Washington, have passed laws that allow hospital systems to merge into monopolies, disregarding FTC warnings that such mergers can become difficult to control and may decrease quality of care.

The island of Nyangai off the coast of Sierra Leone is on the frontline of climate change. More frequent and intense weather has eroded Nyangai to a nubbin. Residents who remain fear for its future.