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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to American College of Emergency Physicians head Dr. Aisha Terry about why U.S. emergency rooms are overcrowded even after the end of the COIVD emergency.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe interviews author Jennifer Vanderbes on her new book, Wonder Drug, about the sleeping pill Thalidomide, which caused birth defects when taken by pregnant women.

Film and TV writers are now in their 8th week of a strike against the major film studios. Both sides are at odds with what is exactly meant by "writing" in Hollywood's new streaming model.

"Mad Black Woman" was one of Tiny Desk Contest judge Sharon Van Etten's favorite 2023 entries.

We look at what the Biden Administration is and isn't saying about the remarkable events that unfolded in Russia yesterday, when the leader of a private army threatened to march to Moscow.

If you look through Chinese social media, you'll find trending videos and pictures of "white people food" - spare, uncooked lunch meals, often compared to elaborate Chinese cuisine.

Former president Donald Trump addressed conservative voters at a Faith & Freedom Coalition gathering on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Plus-size shoppers often struggle to find thrift stores that cater to them. But a new pop-up flea market in L.A. is trying to change that.

Denver last week hosted a psychedelic "science" conference. Colorado is working on rules to implement its recent legalization of hallucinogenic mushrooms. Therapists are already working with them.

In Montana, closing arguments in the the trial for the nation's first youth-led climate lawsuit ended this week and now a judge is weighing her decision. We look at what this decision could mean.