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The U.S. Department of Education announced it's erasing $1.2 billion in federal student loans. At the same time, the department is struggled to implement a new application for federal student aid.

New information has emerged about the former FBI informant charged with making false bribery claims about the Bidens. Prosecutors say Alexander Smirnov has contacts with Russian intelligence.

An estimated 42% of adults in the U.S. know someone who died from a drug overdose. That number is one of many in a Rand Corporation study that demonstrates the sweeping effects of the overdose crisis.

Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia has been thrust into the spotlight since her husband's death. Now the woman who always insisted her role was as a wife and a mother, considers her new role as a politician.

Long COVID has brought new attention to how complex chronic illnesses can develop in the aftermath of a viral infection. Prior research may help forward clinical trials to test possible treatments.

A tiny Taiwanese archipelago of islands embodies the complicated relationship between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.

California legislators have introduced more than a dozen bills in response to a report issued by the reparations taskforce. Notably absent is cash compensation for the descendants of enslaved people.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system said it is pausing in vitro fertilization procedures after the state Supreme court ruled that frozen embryos have the same rights as children.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University's Jameel Jaffer about arguments that prosecuting Julian Assange would threaten press freedom.

A man who was shot dead in Spain last week was believed to be a Russian helicopter pilot who defected to Ukraine because he was opposed to the war. Was Moscow involved in his death?