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A health crisis grips the country, triggered by fuel blockades. Medicine is in short supply. But our writer, living in Kathmandu, needed emergency surgery.

The City of Cleveland is in the middle of an election season overflowing with candidates and pitched battles about where the city is headed. Besides a mayor’s race with nine candidates on the ballot, all of the 17 seats on city council have at least one challenger.

The U.S. has a long tradition of favoring old people over kids. A new paper investigates why.

The U.S. Department of Education has updated its College Scorecard — a trove of college-based performance data meant to help prospective students choose the best school for them.

All chimps managed by the National Institutes of Health that are currently eligible to go to a sanctuary have been moved there, but animal welfare advocates say more should be allowed to go.

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from Africa and abroad.

Our appetite for the Pacific bluefin — prized for its tender, flavorful flesh — has reduced stocks to just 2.6 percent of original levels. The incentive to save bluefin is ecological — and financial.

It's hyperventilate-over-polls season. Here's some perspective to calm you down.

A former prosecutor, federal judge Merrick Garland will visit Capitol Hill on Thursday to begin meeting with legislators, Obama said.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with director Gus Van Sant about his new film, Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot, which chronicles the fall and rise of cartoonist John Callahan.