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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with constitutional law expert Neal Katyal about President Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker to the office of the attorney general.

The president's appointment of a new acting AG ejected Jeff Sessions and leapfrogged Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, the only person at DOJ who the president may like less than Sessions or Robert Mueller.

Pain medications commonly used in labor present medical and mental challenges for pregnant women recovering from opioid addiction.

"It was very difficult being married to a man that felt like politics was his destiny," the former first lady tells All Things Considered host Audie Cornish in a wide-ranging interview about her life.

In his essay this week, NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the role Facebook plays in the atrocities that have been used against the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

Machine counting of votes will begin this week after narrow margins were reported in the races for governor and U.S. Senate.

After years of debate, a major government funded study failed to find any overall benefit of taking widely used supplements to protect against heart disease or cancer.

The release of Rachelle "Shelley" Shannon, who was imprisoned for shooting and injuring an abortion provider in 1993, has clinics on edge amid increased harassment of clinics that provide abortions.

Shaun King plans to revive The North Star, originally an abolitionist newspaper published by Frederick Douglass in 1847. He says it's necessary to fight back against injustices in today's world.

Rare mummified scarabs, preserved in coffins decorated with beetle drawings, were also found. Egypt hopes to attract visitors to the country's heritage sites, where tourism has dropped since 2011.