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Spencer Manio, a Seattle music supervisor and DJ, tries to communicate a brand, intrigue consumers and expose people to good music.

The federal health care law requires young people to sign up for coverage. The health insurance premiums of younger, healthier adults will be important to balancing the cost of covering older, sicker Americans.

Even though Guam doesn't have a say in the presidential election, its citizens still come out and vote for the country they love.

The participation of big name funnymen, including Dave Chappelle, Aziz Ansari and Kevin Hart, provoked criticism from fellow comedians and human rights groups.

A third of the 12,000-mile-long Great Wall of China lies in ruins. Its modern-day defenders confront what may be the world's greatest challenge in cultural preservation.

Schools remain closed after the deadly fires on Maui. Parents say it's important to keep their community from being displaced indefinitely.

This year, much more than in years past, the people charged with taking care of students are under a microscope — and it’s taking a personal, and professional toll on public education.

Some of the best rock music of 2017 was made by women reckoning with a fundamental destructive truth of the genre: that it promises freedom to young female listeners but withholds actual liberation.

Extreme weather events made worse by climate change are hitting some of the poorest parts of the United States hard. Recovery will be extra difficult at a time of high inflation.

Tyrone and Michelle Ferrens build some successes out of their complex story.

Overdose deaths have soared, and every state is being impacted. But research suggests states that haven’t expanded Medicaid coverage, such as Florida, are passing up an opportunity to lessen the toll.

In a reversal that brought him back in a matter of days, the OpenAI co-founder joins a club of CEOs who return after leaving the company they founded.

The company must pay $2.2 billion to a man in Philadelphia who blamed his cancer on his exposure to the herbicide when he worked as a landscaper.

Voters go to the polls Thursday to decide whether the United Kingdom should remain part of the European Union. Financial Times political editor George Parker explains what a vote to "Brexit" would mean. We also hear from a couple divided over the issue.

Chest pain, dizziness, sweating, shaking. If you know these symptoms, you're not alone.

We take you inside the headquarters of Wells Fargo bank. It's a place where a bunch of young, stressed-out workers were rewarded for doing some very bad things.

Same-sex marriage seemed impossible until the first couples were married in Massachusetts 15 years ago this week. Now it is the law of the land, but not everyone wants it to stay that way.

Kindergarten reading scores are way up at a Denver school where local dads are from the same bilingual community as the students.

Two other states — Alabama and Arkansas — have enacted laws similar to Florida’s since last year.

Speech pathologists offer parents real-world advice on how to incorporate a second language with their kids at home — and demystify a misconception about bilingualism.

Ben Smith, a.k.a. The Politicker, tells Scott Simon how he distills political news for his New York Observer blog. He also notes some fellow blogs he tries to read on a daily basis.

The nanosatellites will observe the health of the land to help people make the best use of their countries' natural resources. A growing number of African countries are venturing into space.

Nope. It's not eye of newt and toe of frog. But food — and its connection to dead loved ones — does play a starring role in the major Pagan holiday Samhain, which coincides with Halloween.

Inside Wire: Colorado Prison Radio is the first statewide prison radio station. NPR's Michel Martin talks to one of the producers at the Limon Correctional Facility.

The payment problems left families in Florida with critically ill children who relied on Medicaid-paid health providers stranded.