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Homeless-services providers in Los Angeles County are gathering data on the homeless population and ranking people by vulnerability. The goal is to get the most in need into permanent housing quickly. The "housing first" approach has been used in cities nationwide, but it has its critics, even among other advocates.

Thailand has killed more than 40 million chickens this year in an effort to stop a deadly strain of bird flu that's killed at least 17 people in the country. But the virus keeps resurfacing. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports.

Young men and women are politically drifting apart across the developed world. The growing political gender divide in South Korea is making experts worried about the country's future.

The war in Ukraine is now largely being fought with drones. Ukraine made 2 million last year. Drone makers churn them out in factories and mom-and-pop operations like one in a Kyiv basement apartment.

It's natural to feel some skepticism when a celebrity makes a documentary about their own family. But Law & Order star Mariska Hargitay tells a story that is both effective and empathetic.

The federal government now factors patient satisfaction ratings into the rates Medicare pays hospitals. Some hospitals with lower ratings are finding it's difficult to change patients' perceptions.

One way or another, most phone calls these days involve the internet. Cybersecurity experts say that makes us vulnerable in ways we might not realize.

Harris has often been caught between two groups: law enforcement and progressive activists. In recent years, she has been outspoken about systemic change to policing and criminal justice in America.

Medicare's new authority to negotiate lower prescription drug prices represents a signature accomplishment of the Biden-Harris administration. Here's what to know as the first set of talks wraps up.

NPR's Michel Martin discusses the policy divisions that emerged in the Democratic debates, with journalists: Julia Preston on immigration, Shefali Luthra on healthcare and James Burnett on guns.

Sarah Audelo has spent years behind the scenes in Democratic politics. She's the first Latina to lead the Alliance for Youth Action and is stepping down to make room for younger leaders.

NPR's Michel Martin discusses the policy divisions that emerged in the second round of Democratic debates, with journalists Shefali Luthra, Dino Grandoni and NPR's Domenico Montanaro.

A photojournalist chronicles the daily home life of her mother, a health care worker, in the New York City area.

The country's film regulator has decided that a map shown in the movie does not depict China's controversial nine-dash line.

A leaked budget proposal shows that the federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ+ youth through the 988 crisis line.

The flight line workers will be represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union, despite intense resistance from Boeing.

This weekend on the border of Florida and Alabama, people will compete in the annual mullet toss across state lines. This is the mullet fish, not the hairstyle.

Xi Jinping says that Hong Kong residents must not cross a "red line" that would "endanger the sovereignty and security" of China.

At the forefront of New York's house-rap scene since 2011, the introspective Cakes toes the line between bounce and thought.

The first line of "Empty Screens" may be "We lost control," but Something Fierce knows exactly what it's doing.