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Purdue Pharma and Sackler family members who own the company have reached a $7.4 billion settlement with all 50 states and U.S. territories over the company's improper marketing of opioids.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, calls for civility after an attack that killed one state lawmaker and left another wounded.

NPR speaks with a student from Myanmar who fears his plans to attend graduate school in the U.S. could be derailed by the administration's newest travel ban.

The federal judge in the case says she hopes to decide next week on whether to block indefinitely President Trump's June 4th order on Harvard's international students.

A new study shows that music therapy is as effective as cognitive behavioral therapy at helping cancer patients and survivors heal emotionally.

Following the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers, NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Matthew Dallek, a historian and professor at George Washington University, about political violence in America.

Climate change in the U.S. is intersecting with another crisis: the lack of affordable housing. Vienna, Austria, may offer solutions.

President Trump will attend the Group of Seven political and economic summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada.

A tiny mountain town in northern New York is the beneficiary of a huge bequest. Now the 600 residents of Long Lake have to figure out what to do with it.

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.