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With few options for health care in their rural community, a Tennessee couple's experience with one outrageous bill could have led to a deadly delay when they needed help the most.

After Nancy Glynn got pregnant, she learned her employer didn't offer paid family leave. Then, like many Americans, she discovered it was hard to get by without it.

Two large investors — Ares Management LLC and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board — have reached a deal to purchase Neiman Marcus, Inc., for $6 billion, the companies said Monday. The two buyers will hold equal shares of Neiman, which is based in Dallas.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, about U.S. policy on the conflict between Israel and Iran.

Scenes from some of the most popular TikToks from the Global South in 2024: a dancing teen from the Philippines; an homage to Mr. Bean, that cute baby pygmy hippo.

India's fatality statistics might be artificially low because only a small portion of all deaths that occur in India — reportedly around 22%, as of last year — are medically certified.

Mary Peltola narrowly won a special election that was determined by a ranked-choice voting tabulation. She will become the first Alaska Native in Congress.

Hip-hop is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and we're looking back at albums that changed the game. Today, it's the group that took a shoestring DIY approach to creating horrorcore: Three 6 Mafia.

Forget Pride and Promiscuity and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. Now there's a real Jane Austen manuscript to behold. This week at Sotheby's in London, an unfinished novel by the adored author sold at auction for about $1.6 million. Guest host Linda Wertheimer has more.

The American Academy of Pediatrics says children are better off in school but that the decision to reopen cannot ignore spiking infection rates.