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NPR got an early look at data showing vastly different opportunities for children of different races across the U.S. living just neighborhoods apart. Albany, N.Y., has some of the greatest inequities.

Not disclosing HIV status to a sexual partner can land you in prison in Ohio and other states, even if they don't contract the disease. A move is underway to embrace medical science and change that.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled Wednesday that the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate is unconstitutional, but stopped short of saying that the whole law is invalid.

Health care is shaping up to be a major issue in the 2020 elections and is dividing the field of Democratic presidential candidates. But what drives voters? Here are a few of their stories.

Congress has approved two major spending bills to fund the federal government through September 2020. The package heads to the president's desk for his signature.

Alabama, Louisiana and South Dakota have sued to block the implementation of the Equal Rights Amendment. The push began in 1972 and now attorneys general in these states claim it's a belated attempt.

Broad swaths of the Amazon Rainforest burned this year. An NPR correspondent met one character deep in the rainforest who told him something that didn't end up in a radio story but stuck with him.

In an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep former National Security Adviser John Bolton criticizes the Trump administration's strategy on North Korea and declines to comment on Trump's impeachment.

The movie musical Cats premieres this week. It adapts Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical of the same name, which is both divisive and still very popular.

Former Vice President Joe Biden was steadier than in past debates; South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg came under attack; and the candidates defended their least diverse debate stage yet.