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Doctors and midwives may have fled. Getting to a clinic could be risky. Women have even been shot while giving birth.

Missouri's public defender system is one of the worst funded in the nation. To protest declining funding, the state's public defender director has taken a step that's getting him some attention — he has appointed Gov. Jay Nixon to handle a case.

As part of a state law designed to help equalize pay for women, employers are now prohibited from asking about an employee's previous salary. Advocates say the question creates a cycle of low pay.

Surfing will be coming to the Olympics in 2020. The International Olympic Committee approved the sport for the upcoming Tokyo Games. Surfers in Southern California had a variety of reactions to the news, from "gnarly" to saying the Olympics were "50 years late."

North Carolina's HB2 law has sparked an ACLU lawsuit and prompted calls for boycotts. Inside the state, beer brewers say the law doesn't represent them.

Take a break from the news for a totally compelling, entirely gravity-driven race that captured hearts and minds on the Internet this week. Plus: literary parodies, because this is NPR.

Infrared thermal cameras have revolutionized the way rangers can see into the dark. But sometimes, experience trumps technology.

Remittances — money sent home by migrants working abroad — add up to more than triple the amount of official foreign aid to developing countries. And that makes some people unhappy.

On the eve of the second anniversary of the Chibok kidnapping — an event that prompted the #BringBackOurGirls movement — CNN is airing a video that purportedly shows 15 of the kidnapped girls.

A lawsuit claims that Led Zeppelin perpetrated a "falsification of Rock n' Roll History." A federal judge dismissed that part of the plaintiff's case.