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About 300 Americans a year give a kidney to a complete stranger. Researchers have studied the brains of these very generous people, and say they may feel others' pain more than the average person. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on November 28, 2024.)

We explore the history of the bells that have become so tied with the Christmas season: jingle bells.

Since 2018, readers and listeners sent KFF Health News-NPR's "Bill of the Month" thousands of questionable bills. Our crowdsourced investigation paved the way for landmark legislation and highlighted cost-saving strategies for all patients

Natural gas utilities likely will face stricter federal regulations for their climate-warming methane emissions. Among the biggest sources of leaks is the meter outside a gas customer's home.

Michel Martin speaks with filmmaker Tyler Perry and actor Kerry Washington about their film based on World War II's only Women's Army Corps unit of color.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Stephen Rapp, a former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, on his trip to Syria to help preserve evidence from mass graves.

Syria's new rulers are forming a government after more than half a century of dictatorship under former leader Bashar al-Assad and his father.

International shipping and logistics giant Maersk has confirmed it will cease transpacific operations in Alaska by February. Terminals in Dutch Harbor and Kodiak are on the chopping block.

Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language film, The Room Next Door, is a meditation on death. Writing and making movies "is a way of running away from death," the Spanish director says.

NPR spoke with 30 small groups of people around the country about what they'd want other people to understand about their community — and what they want to understand about others