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Several dozen are believed killed in a fire at a New Year's Eve party in a Swiss ski resort bar.

Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses are on strike demanding things like higher wages and more security in hospitals. The head of the of the New York State Nurses Association talks about the next steps.

The Trump administration held secret meetings to discuss the overthrow of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Ernesto Londoño of The New York Times.

In Venezuela, tensions reached fever pitch this week when opposition leader Juan Guaidó called for the military to oust President Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuela's opposition are holding a primary to elect the candidate who will take on President Nicolas Maduro in next year's elections. The Maduro government is not making campaigning or voting easy.

Was Judge Hannah Dugan trying to obstruct a proceeding or trying to run her courtroom when ICE agents came to arrest an undocumented immigrant? A federal jury will decide

House Republicans are drafting legislation to avoid a default on the nation's credit limit. Senators face a possible vote on temporarily replacing ailing Sen. Dianne Feinstein on a judiciary panel.

Many American companies left Russia shortly after it invaded Ukraine. Others that waited are now finding it challenging to leave.

Medicare will cut payments to hospitals with high rates of patient infections and injuries. Half of the nation's academic medical centers will be docked for making too many medical mistakes.

Figuring out the penalty for not signing up for health insurance is just one complication. Tax filers who made more money last year than they anticipated may have to pay back some of their subsidy.

The head of the World Health Organization made a historic announcement today: COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency. NPR unpacks what that means — and what comes next.

Lead vocalists have gotten quieter over the decades, compared with the rest of the band, according to a new study. Beck says it's part of the "volume wars."

A female employee says her audio recordings show that Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Melvin Watt held up her pay raise as he pressed her for a sexual relationship.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Washington Post columnist Geoffrey Fowler about the privacy issues individuals face if they use Amazon's new health care service, Amazon Clinic.

Medicare has tied incentive payments and penalties to two-dozen quality measurements, including surveys of patient satisfaction and death rates. More than 1,200 hospitals are receiving bonuses. But more hospitals are being paid less for each Medicare patient they treat for the year that began Oct. 1.

Rusty Lovell was diagnosed with leukemia eight years ago. Luckily, through his wife's plan he has "gold-plated" insurance that has paid millions of dollars for his care since then, at a low monthly cost to them.

As the Supreme Court weighs in on a lower court decision related to mifepristone, how do suburban voters in Texas - ground zero for restrictions - view the national conversation around abortion?

China's envoy to France, Lu Shaye, caused a diplomatic uproar over the weekend as he falsely claimed some ex-Soviet Union countries do not have effective status under international law.

President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are preparing for another face-to-face meeting Monday afternoon to try to reach an agreement on the debt ceiling and avoid default.

Los Angeles is planning to add 100,000 new apartments downtown. Garment workers and others now fear L.A.'s Fashion District and its factories won't survive the city's downtown housing boom.