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Medicare limits payments for minimally invasive replacement of aortic valves to hospitals with large numbers of heart procedures. But smaller facilities are crying foul.

Noel King talks to Michael Baumann of the National Institute on Drug Abuse about the dozens of people who overdosed this week on synthetic cannabinoids in Connecticut.

Two transgender Vietnam vets talk about their friendship and how they supported one another. (The conversation originally aired on June 30, 2018 on Weekend Edition Saturday).

A bunch of guys showed up to a New York City park thinking they had a private date with a woman named Natasha — not realizing she'd used the dating app to draw them there for her own Hunger Games.

GUNS AND BONDS - The Louisiana Bond Commission has blocked two of the nation's largest banks from involvement in a $600 million road-financing plan…

The debate over constitutional equality still rages.

Organizers say the demonstrations, which are expected to include hunger strikes and a refusal to work, are in response to a riot at a South Carolina prison in which seven inmates died.

Airs Thursday, August 23, 2018, at 6 p.m. Selecting a weight loss plan to follow can be a mind-boggling experience, Keto, Mediterranean, low carb… how do…

Ling Ma's Severance is an unusual apocalyptic novel, says critic Maureen Corrigan. Satiric, playful and scary, it lends assurance that humor will linger even as the world comes to an end.

A year ago, President Trump said his original instinct was to pull out of Afghanistan. But he chose to stay. NPR looks at what's changed since then in Afghanistan — and what hasn't.