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The Hyde Amendment is a 43-year-old law that prohibits taxpayer-supported health care programs from using federal funds for abortions.

The parasite carries potentially lethal pathogens in Asia as well as Australia and New Zealand. Now it's in North America. We ask tick specialists to weigh in.

In a new project, photographer Robin Hammond made portraits of women who've lived through fighting and violence. He found pain, sorrow, anger, hope — and even joy.

The 50th anniversary Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival box set, out now, focuses on jazz legends and rising stars from the region.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Michelle Ortiz, deputy director of Americans for Immigrant Justice, about the Trump administration's plan to suspend legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sarah Pierce of the Migration Policy Institute about what such "safe third country agreement" between the U.S. and Mexico would entail.

Emma Thompson stars as a talk show host who hires Molly (Mindy Kaling) to join a writers room full of white men. But the film falls short in reconciling its satire with its more sentimental moments.

Library vans ply lonely roads and deliver books, including works in Gaelic, to hundreds of isolated residents. Seeing the mobile librarian is sometimes the only human contact they will have for days.

Malcolm John Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, died Thursday at age 77. He was a giant of New Orleans rhythm & blues in the 1950s and 1960s.

Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert has a new novel. NPR's Scott Simon talks to the best-selling writer about City of Girls.