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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dr. Aileen Gariepy of Weill Cornell Medicine about the new federal guidance that advises doctors to consider pain management for IUD insertion pain.

Israel has detained a group of soldiers on allegations that they sexually assaulted a Gazan detainee. It’s one of the most prominent cases of abuse that authorities have investigated during the war.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jessica Winter of The New Yorker about J.D. Vance's politics, particularly his views around the importance of having children.

Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees have fled to Chad, where they're facing increasingly difficult conditions as their presence strains local resources and humanitarian aid organizations.

This year, some American Muslims say they feel politically homeless — not understood or welcomed by either Republicans or Democrats.

As Boeing faces increased scrutiny, the company held a meeting this week to discuss changes at a factory where it builds the 737 Max.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Regina Barber and Rachel Carlson of Short Wave about colorful and invasive Joro spiders, a cicada fungus, and lessons about how the human body responds to life in outer space.

Former President Donald Trump has lots of support in rural Morgan County, Ga., where immigration is a major concern.

The death toll reported from an average tropical cyclone is 24. But the true toll is maybe 300 times higher—and the losses stretch for years after the storm passes.

Life in Lebanon was already difficult due to the ongoing economic crisis and simmering tensions along its southern border. After the attacks using exploding devices, fear is taking on a new shape.

The national hospital company Steward Health Care is in bankruptcy after piling up billions of dollars in debt.

A federal jury has convicted three former Memphis police officers of some federal civil rights violations and found them not guilty of others in the 2023 beating death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols.

Voters in a record number of states — including the battlegrounds of Arizona and Nevada — are set to decide this fall whether to enact far-reaching changes to how their elections are run.

A lawsuit accuses Miley Cyrus and others of duplicating a song by Bruno Mars in order to create her hit "Flowers." A closer look reveals a legal strategy driven by a bigger trend in music business.

NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after it was born, and how wildfires can affect water quality – after the fires stop burning.

The Department of Health and Human Services says it will require new vaccines to be tested against a placebo, which could complicate and delay Food and Drug Administration approval of many vaccines.

The chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., is facing calls for impeachment after blocking one of President Trump's immigration plans.

Music producer Jack Antonoff, famous for his work with Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, and Lorde, draws a card from the Wild Card deck.

History is made: Claudia Sheinbaum has won Mexico's election by a landslide to become its first female president.

President Trump's effort to "rein in" independent agencies is raising particular concern among those who follow the work of the Federal Election Commission, which enforces campaign finance laws.