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In a detailed memorandum, Attorney General Maura Healey alleges eight Sackler family members and nine Purdue board members or executives played key roles in the nation's deadly opioid epidemic.

After lifting President Obama to re-election, African-American and Hispanic advocacy groups want him to champion initiatives that will specifically benefit minorities.

The state estimates that about 325,000 wells have been drilled since the mid-1800s, but the locations of 200,000 of them are unknown. This proves problematic when new wells occasionally intersect abandoned ones, and gas rockets up to the surface in a geyser.

The founding father of "microcredit" is helping to judge a contest with maxidollars: the Clinton Global Initiative's Hult Prize, granting $1 million to a new business idea that'll help the poor.

Lebanon's civil war ended 25 years ago, but the sectarian divisions that sliced its capital into different enclaves still hold today. Everyone coexists relatively peacefully — most of the time.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to Republican Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri about the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. Smith opposes the bill, which the House is expected to vote on Wednesday.

Heat waves are getting longer and more intense with climate change, which increases the risk of preterm birth. Pregnant women often don't hear about the dangers.

NPR's Debbie Elliott talks to Texas Pastor Danny Reeves, who is urging non-vaccinated people to get the shot after he almost died in the hospital from COVID-19.

Some scientists say discrimination against gay and lesbian government employees during James Webb's tenure as NASA administrator should preclude him from having a telescope named in his honor.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Harley Blakeman, CEO of Honest Jobs, about the surge of companies looking for employees, and how those often overlooked with criminal convictions can be the perfect fit.