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Opioid painkillers prescribed by dentists have helped fuel the nation's addiction epidemic. Dental schools are teaching the next generation of dentists that there are other ways to treat pain.

Hurricane Irma is tracking more to the west of Western North Carolina after making landfall in Florida this weekend. But WNC will still see significant…

David Simon's gritty new drama follows pornography's transition from back-alley pursuit to billion-dollar industry. The sex scenes are transactional, but also explicit, with equal opportunity nudity.

The Cleveland Indians won their 15th straight game on Thursday night and roughly $2 million of free windows for their fans. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with William Barr, CEO of Universal Windows Direct, the company that gave away the free windows.

The country legend behind "I Believe In You" and , whose career spanned five decades, died at home in Alabama after a short illness.

The cohesion and resilience of Rockport, Texas' Vietnamese-American community, which numbers about a thousand, may help it recover from the storm's destruction.

Lisa and Stan Heilblum live in Kendall in Miami-Dade County. Scott Simon talks with them about staying home for Irma after putting up shutters and stocking up on tuna.

This year's U.S. Open tennis tournament saw four Americans in the semifinals. What's more, three of them are African-American. Katrina Adams, president of the U.S. Tennis Association, talks with NPR's Michel Martin about the progress made in tennis.

What does the push for digital classrooms mean for that oldest and simplest of touch screens: a plain old sheet of paper?

The village of Gourec, in Brittany, has long been home to British expats. With the prospect of Brexit, even more Britons are flocking there to secure French citizenship and retain EU privileges.