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With two bills up for debate in the House this week aiming to stop surprise billing, research finds the average surprise bill post-surgery exceeds $2,000.

LAS VEGAS — A paramedic was treating Ryan Newman inside his car 35 seconds after the ruined and flaming vehicle came to rest after a crash on the last lap…

Among Native Americans, asthma rates are high, and those with asthma end up in clinics more often, miss more school and work, and are more likely to die from the condition, according to the CDC.

Small music venues in the US are looking for a lifeline — and a new bill in Congress called The Restart Act might be it. Advocates say the future of independent venues relies on government relief.

Gov. Roy Cooper announced today he’ll allow North Carolina’s public schools to reopen Aug. 17 with buildings and buses at limited capacity, despite…

The fishing port of New Bedford, Mass., is protecting essential workers during the pandemic with a set of enforceable guidelines that experts say could be a model for other cities.

RALEIGH — A North Carolina legislative session anticipated months ago to repeat the acrimony from last year’s budget impasse between Republicans and…

The economy contracted in the first quarter of 2020 as the coronavirus began to take its toll and spending dived. It's the first quarterly drop in six years and a likely precursor to a deep recession.

Updated 9:30 p.m. March 9South Carolina health officials say they identified four new likely cases of coronavirus Sunday and a fifth Monday, bringing the…

President Trump and others criticized "elite, wealthy institutions" for money allocated to them by a federal package.

The justices threw out as moot a challenge to New York City's strict gun regulations, but gun-safety advocates worry that gains in the states may be taken away by a conservative court majority.

Public health experts say finding and isolating coronavirus patients will be key to reopening public life. That's going to take a lot of work.

About a third of Americans are working from home because of the coronavirus. The technology that enables this has been around for many years, but it took a pandemic to force the move to remote work.

The U.S. education secretary has told public K-12 schools they should use their coronavirus relief money to help private school students, too.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Osage Beach, Missouri mayor John Olivarri about crowded openings at bars in his Lake of the Ozarks town.

Streamers and networks like HBO and AppleTV+ are offering access for free during the pandemic lockdown, and old standbys like PBS are revisiting or reinventing offerings.

Imagine being ordered to draw a map of a place you've never been. That's a lot like Tuesday night's Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools budget vote.The board…

For the first time, court proceedings were streamed live to the public. The cases range from religious freedom to access to President Trump's personal financial records. Listen back here.

George Orwell's anti-tyranny fable Animal Farm turns 75 this week. We examine what Orwell was thinking when he wrote it, why it's lasted so long and what we can learn from it today.

One year ago, a gunman killed 23 people and injured 23 others at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. One of the victims was 60-year-old Arturo Benavides, a decorated Army veteran and retired city bus driver.