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Ex-opioid users on long-term antibiotics often have to stay in the hospital longer, lest they be tempted to inject illegal drugs into their IV line. A new approach built on trust could change that.

An approach to treating new diseases that worked for the Ebola and Zika viruses is being tested for the new coronavirus. It involves using antibodies to the disease as a drug.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former impeachment manager Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., about what remains of checks and balances between Congress and the executive branch.

As Nevada tries out early voting for Saturday's Democratic caucus, there have been long lines and mixed feelings about the practice of caucusing.

President Trump commuted the prison term of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, and pardoned former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and former Wall Street financier Michael Milken.

Officials say the 18th century artifact disappeared in 1993. Then it turned up at Sirak Asfaw's place in the Netherlands in 1998. Not knowing what to do, he stayed quiet about it ... for two decades.

Urban immigrant communities could be particularly vulnerable to contracting COVID-19. In New York City, public health workers are making extra efforts to reach the immigrant population.

In Pakistan, angry families are attacking doctors and smashing hospitals as health care workers turn away coronavirus patients — saying their institutions are full.

Pandemic has tested the strength of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele. He remains popular, but his draconian lockdown rules have raised human rights concerns and faced pushback from Congress.

In Chanel Cleeton's latest, three women from very different backgrounds — and with different goals in life and love — converge on Key West as the devastating Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 bears down.