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Public health officials in Mississippi recently declared a crisis around infant mortality. Too many babies are dying. Officials are working to help pregnant moms get access to better prenatal care.

Next month, South Dakotans will decide whether to expand Medicaid to 42,500 state residents. Democratic candidates elsewhere are making it a part of their pitch to flip GOP-held governors' offices.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with journalist George Packer, who profiled Afghan's most recent president, Ashraf Ghani, for The New Yorker in 2016.

Pantomimes are plays based on a well-known story — often a fairy tale — which are given a bawdy twist. The audience is expected to join in throughout, shouting as loudly as they can.

It's one of the more counterintuitive patterns in this year's election data. But why is it happening?

For months, Spain's borrowing costs have been hovering near levels that sent Greece, Ireland and Portugal into bailouts. Spain will have to cough up nearly $40 billion to pay interest on its debts this year alone. That's many times what's been cut from things like health and education, which has Spaniards so upset. But the only alternative to raising money on markets is simply to stop spending it. Last week, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy signaled he may simply give up, and try to rely on tax revenue alone.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Francisco Monaldi, the director of the Latin American Energy Program at the Baker Institute at Rice University about the U.S.'s long interest in Venezuela's oil industry.

U.S. forces stopped a vessel off the coast of Venezuela for the second time in less than two weeks as President Trump continues to ramp up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Instead of weekly injections, patients will soon be able to swallow a daily pill to lose weight. Novo Nordisk's pill form of Wegovy is the first to gain Food and Drug Administration approval.

The Justice Department said Wednesday that it may need a "few more weeks" to release its records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after discovering more than a million potentially relevant documents.

For the first time in three months, the White House is reopening for public tours, just in time for the holidays.

The Trump administration wants the authority to fire Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor. Experts say that would undermine the independence of the central bank.

"Football" is a word used to refer to different games: American football, the game played at the Super Bowl, where a foot is rarely used to direct the ball. And elsewhere in the world, football refers to what Americans call "soccer." But where does this word really come from?

"This is very valuable to us, and we will pay," Savannah Guthrie said in a new video message, seeking to communicate with people who say they're holding her mother.

Mueller's family told The New York Times in August that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.

President Trump sidelined Venezuela's opposition and is working with remnants of the regime led by ousted leader Nicolás Maduro. What's next for the opposition?

The premier of the Canadian province of British Columbia, David Eby, explains why this Sunday is the beginning of a new era of permanent daylight saving time there.

The United States and Iran failed to reach an agreement after a day of highly anticipated face-to-face peace talks, Washington's lead negotiator Vice President J.D. Vance announced on Sunday.

The average national price of a gallon of gas has passed the $4 mark for the first time in more than three years.