Internal emails, interviews and in-app messages show Uber and Lyft deployed a powerful lobbying playbook to stop minimum wage laws in Minnesota. But drivers had a playbook of their own. (Image credit: Jenn Ackerman for NPR) Read More
Aging with HIV comes with an increased risk of other health problems. Failing to get adequate care could undermine fighting the virus. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on June 15, 2024.) Read More
Since mid-April, heat waves have been baking in India, the world’s most populous nation. The vulnerable are struggling to cope. Read More
The loquacious donkey in the “Shrek” franchise is actually based on a real live animal, who is now 30 years old and racking up medical bills. Read More
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report says it hasn’t seen nuclear weapons playing such a prominent role in international relations since the Cold War. (Image credit: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service) Read More
An ongoing NPR investigation into military health care reveals that four out of 10 U.S. military bases are located within a federally designated health care desert. Read More
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Georgetown Law professor and legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union David Cole about the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn a ban on gun bump stocks. Read More
Sunscreen is the best way to protect ourselves against skin cancer. But doctors are concerned by a backlash against sunscreen that is spreading on social media. (Image credit: Anna Vishnyak) Read More
Some of Judge Aileen Cannon’s decisions in Trump’s Florida classified documents case have baffled one former judge, who gives her assessment of the case so far. (Image credit: Joe Raedle) Read More
For hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and their families, when the Pentagon orders them to find health care off base there is none. (Image credit: Lance Corporal Aaron K. Fiala/U.S. Marine Corps) Read More