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Lawsuits have taken aim at the Biden administration's efforts to cancel some federal student loan debt. In response, the administration has been subtly shifting its plan, and changing who qualifies.

Fort Myers Beach was one of the places hit hardest by Hurricane Ian. Jim and Susan Helton are two of the many whose homes were destroyed. Now they don't know what's next.

A 2017 NPR investigation found that many funeral businesses failed to disclose prices to consumers. The FTC may modernize the existing rule to make such information more transparent.

Residents of Jackson, Miss., are still trying their best to function without safe and reliable drinking water, and some decry decades of disinvestment in the state's majority-Black capital city.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Lesley Cosme Torres, who reports on disinformation for The Miami Herald, about misinformation circulating online in the wake of Hurricane Ian.

Parents of young children in rural communities are facing tough choices between child care and their jobs — and in some cases, their homes.

Deaths exceeded births in half of U.S. states last year, marking a big shift. The pandemic and limits on immigration are partly to blame.

For COVID patients, ECMO is a last-ditch respiratory treatment in which only about half survive. Yet a new small study suggests many lives would still have been saved if there had been more machines.

At 16, Nicolas Montero is old enough to get vaccinated on his own in some parts of the country. But he had to try to get the jabs without his parents knowing, since they're opposed to the vaccine.

In a span of 3 days this week, court rulings seesawed between outlawing abortions and permitting them. A judge allowed them to continue Wednesday for at least 21 days.