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Astrid Silva, who was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child, says she will be talking to people like her parents who have been in the U.S. for years without a path to citizenship, "living in fear."

The number of people who have used opioid painkillers is still rising, according to a new NPR-Truven Health Analytics poll. But they're also worried about addiction, overdose and side effects.

People seem to be more accepting of differences in gender and sexual orientation. But cross-dressing is still misunderstood. Miss Vera's Finishing School For Boys Who Want To Be Girls tries to help.

An ad in a March 1852 edition of The New York Times led Zachary Turpin on an electronic search that uncovered a rags-to-riches novella that Whitman published anonymously.

Let's take a grand tour of Mumbai's toilets, from deluxe to holes in the ground for squatting to ... the railroad tracks?

With just over three weeks until Election Day, Dr. Michael McDonald, an associate professor of political science at the University of Florida, discusses early voting patterns in 2016.

Health officials hoped giving more people health insurance would curtail their use of expensive emergency rooms for routine medical care. But data from Oregon suggest their overall ER use didn't drop.

The startup Brigade built an app that asks a simple question: Which candidate are you going to vote for? The company's data pointed to a big crossover effect: Democrats voting for Trump in droves.

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump is blaming an economic downturn for the massive tax loss he apparently reported in 1995. But former employees and business associates say Trump's own business decisions were mostly to blame.

The justices ruled in 2014 that extreme juror bias could impede a fair trial and, if such a case arose, they would decide then if an exception was warranted. Now, that case has come.