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Nearly half of all U.S. states want a share of a lawsuit settlement with Purdue Pharma to pay for programs to address record overdose deaths and a worsening opioid crisis during the pandemic. We take a look at the impact of the pandemic on addiction treatment and where the recovery community heads from here.

Obesity in America is increasing and it only got worse during the pandemic. In addition to adults, more than one-in-five U.S. children and teens are obese. We’ll address the causes, issues and ways of dealing with America’s obesity epidemic.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to former Olympic soccer player-turned-analyst Julie Foudy about the upcoming and unusually heated election for president of the U.S. Soccer Federation on Feb. 10.

In 1964, a program that brought migrant Mexican laborers to the U.S. ended. So the U.S. recruited American students to pick crops instead. When they saw their living conditions, strikes ensued.

Crowds and clouds didn't stop people from gathering across the path of totality. Viewers craned their necks and clapped as skies briefly darkened, a sight the U.S. won't see again until 2044.

Since World War II, inequality in the U.S. has gone through two, dramatically different phases.

A growing number of states are passing laws banning abortion in the early stages of pregnancy in hopes of rolling back Roe v. Wade.

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Rita Chahal, executive director of the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council, about the spike in migrants crossing the border from the U.S. into Canada.

Thousands of South Koreans demonstrated in Seoul on Sunday, protesting the expansion of a U.S. military base a few miles south of the city. U.S. forces currently stationed near the demilitarized zone and in Seoul will be transferred to the larger facility in Pyongtaek, a city of 350,000 people. Twenty people were arrested in the largely peaceful demonstration.

In Jerusalem, talks are under way between United Nations and Israeli officials on the possibility of a cease-fire in the weeklong violence between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah. U.S. Marines helped Americans evacuate the region between Israel and Lebanon.