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Tom Petty performs with The Heartbreakers at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., on June 16, 2013.

Tom Petty To 'Fresh Air': 'The Songs Mean A Lot To People, And It Means A Lot To Me'

Petty, who died Monday night, spoke with Terry Gross in 2006 about the seeds of his Hall Of Fame career: "We always wanted very much to create our own sound."

Affordable Care Act navigators helped guide those looking for insurance during an enrollment event at San Antonio's Southwest General Hospital last year. Beyond helping with initial enrollment, navigators often follow up with help later, as an applicant's income or job status changes.

Bemoaning Budget Cuts, Health Care Navigators Say Feds Don't Get It

The federal government has sharply cut funding to groups that help people enroll in health plans. But the groups say federal officials don't understand how much help and follow-up some people need.

The Hughes Glomar Explorer off the coast of Catalina Island, Calif., in August 1975, a year after its secret CIA mission to raise a Soviet sub that sank in the Pacific Ocean. This was one of the CIA's most elaborate and expensive operations. The CIA has just declassified new documents that show the Soviets were suspicious, but never actually knew what the Americans were doing.

How The CIA Found A Soviet Sub — Without The Soviets Knowing

It's a great tale of Cold War intrigue that includes eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, a CIA covert operation and a Soviet sub with nuclear missiles that sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Billed As "Family Friendly," Ohio Wrestling Circuit Brings Black Stereotypes Into The Fray

Multi-colored disco lights and loud music all add to the bombastic atmosphere of New Ohio Wrestling’s latest showdown. From an indoor sports complex in…

Officer Ron Meyers in Ross County, Ohio.

In One Ohio County, Police Try Something Different: Door-to-Door Interventions For Drug Users

Officer Ron Meyers drove down a dirt road 20 minutes outside the small city of Chillicothe, Ohio. As he passed each home, he slowed down and squinted,...

Morning Headlines: Steelworkers Reject TimkenSteel's Second Offer; Kasich Defends Execution Protocol

Here are your morning headlines for Friday, November 17th: Union rejects second offer from TimkenSteel; Sen. Brown gives campaign donations from Sen....

Kawkab walks with a social worker in the Dabaga camp for displaced Iraqis. Kawkab says she was seven or eight when she saw ISIS militants shoot her mother dead. "They shot her with an assault rifle," she says. "They shot her and she died and they threw her off the bridge. I asked them, 'Why did you kill her? She's my mother. She didn't do anything.'"

Traumatized And Vulnerable To Abuse, Orphans From Mosul Are 'Living In Another World'

Thousands of Iraqi children lost one or both parents during fighting in Mosul. "They are sad and isolated. Most of the time, they have few friends and they don't trust anyone," says a social worker.

If Parents In Taiwan Are OK With Their Kids' Sex Ed Class, Why Are Others So Upset?

Despite being one of the first places in Asia to recognize same-sex unions and require schools to teach sex education, Taiwanese society is having a hard time catching up.

What makes drug prices so high? Let us count the ways.

Report: Here's What The Feds Can Do To Cut Drug Prices

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine get very specific in their recommendations of actions they think the federal government should take to lower prescription drug costs.

Opioids In The Family

Rachel Martin talks with retired U.S. Navy Adm. James Winnefeld about his son's addiction to opioids, an experience he wrote about for The Atlantic.

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