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As we near the end of 2018, the latest public health data suggests we may be seeing a plateau in the number of opioid deaths. ideastream’s Lecia Bushak joins "Morning Edition" host Amy Eddings with an update on this and other health stories that made headlines. In September, state health officials said Ohio experienced a record number of opioid-related deaths in 2017, 4,854. What do the preliminary figures suggest for this year?

After touring the two border facilities where Jakelin Caal was detained before she died, the congressional delegation called for better medical facilities and trained personnel at ports of entry.

Sears once changed the American marketplace. Now, it’s filed for bankruptcy. We’ll look at the retail industry’s latest disruption.

The storm brings deadly storm surge, wind and rainfall to west-central and southwestern Mexico, forecasters say.

President Trump signed sweeping legislation on Wednesday to address the opioid epidemic. In a deeply divided election year, the addiction crisis in a rare focus of bipartisan attention.

Former prisoners gathered at the site of the former concentration camp to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The speaker's office says a congressional delegation was prepared to take a commercial flight to Afghanistan after Trump revoked a military flight.

A consent decree to overhaul the Chicago Police Department begins Friday. The implications for the police department loom large, but results of oversight in other cities have been mixed.

In Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, the median age is 18. Many youth say their aging leaders are out of touch, yet the leading candidates in Saturday's presidential election are in their 70s.

NPR's Scott Simon asks former drug czar and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske about President Trump's declaration of a national emergency to fund a wall along the border.