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The VA has published new rules on how it will spend billions of dollars on private health care. Proponents say it will give veterans more choices, but others fear it's a move toward privatization.

In January, California expects to enroll 138,000 undocumented, low-income residents under age 26 in the state's version of Medicaid. But young adults say their parents need health care coverage, too.

More states are requiring that children learn about consent and healthy relationships, and students themselves are among those pushing for change.

A gunman entered the offices of the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis on Thursday and opened fire, killing four journalists and a sales assistant. We have profiles of the victims.

Lily King's new novel centers on a woman who's spent six years working on her own novel. It's a story of ambition — and what happens when the markers of adult achievement are slow to materialize.

Ten years ago, the not-guilty verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial revealed a huge racial divide on perceptions about the criminal justice system. NPR's Mandalit del Barco looks back at the milestone and examines how it's left a lasting mark.

Democrats and Republicans faced off for the traditional Congressional Baseball Game Thursday night, in the wake of a shooting that left Rep. Steve Scalise critically wounded.

For nearly a century, Daniel Woodrell's hometown of West Plains, Mo., has been haunted by a dance-hall explosion that killed dozens of the town's young people in 1928. Woodrell explores the disaster — and his Ozarks roots — in his new novel The Maid's Version.

In the film, Fort Bliss, a sergeant serving in Afghanistan struggles between her duties as a mother and as a soldier. NPR's Wade Goodwyn speaks with director Claudia Myers about her latest movie.

When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast five years ago, it sent a 30-foot-high wall of water ashore the coast of Mississippi. Sharon Hanshaw, who lost her home and beauty shop in Biloxi, says she's fighting for equitable development for her impoverished community.