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Drug overdose is the top killer of young adults — and is a problem on college campuses, too, though it often goes unreported. One mother wants to make sure narcan is easy to get in college dorms.

The nation's top safety investigators concluded there were multiple systemic failures that led to a midair blowout during the flight of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max jet last year.

President-elect Donald Trump and his newest top-lieutenant, Elon Musk, have sent Washington scrambling to avoid a government shutdown, even before Trump takes office.

China's top trade negotiator, Li Chenggang, told reporters the two had reached a "preliminary consensus," while Trump's treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, said there was "a very successful framework."

Afghanistan is a mountainous land where mountain climbing is rare among men and virtually nonexistent among women. An American is now preparing young Afghan women to scale the country's highest peak.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Eleanor Beardsley shares what it's like to report from Paris, which is experiencing extreme heat due to climate change, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

After flames destroyed 1.3 million Joshua trees in Mojave National Preserve, biologists began replanting seedlings. But many have died, and now another fire has torched more of the iconic succulents.

Experts are uncovering Connecticut’s ties to slavery. But students are also chronicling stories of northern enslavement right where they live.

Agreeing to an out-of-network doctor's financial policy, which protects their ability to get paid and may be littered with confusing jargon, can create a binding contract that leaves a patient owing.

A Gallup survey ranks countries based on degree of "social connectedness" people feel with friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, even strangers. We asked Mongolians why they think they top the list.