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Following minor surgery, a Kaiser Health News columnist sees up close how easily doctors can prescribe opioid pain pills, and how such prescribing helps fuel the epidemic of opioid addiction.

The results put the U.S. further away from a viable replacement rate — the standard for a generation being able to replicate its numbers.

Before publishing footage from Japan's "suicide forest," Logan Paul said, "tomorrow's vlog will be the craziest and most real video I've ever uploaded."

A powerful winter storm is dropping up to a foot-and-a-half of snow in some parts of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Strong winds and cold temperatures are stressing the region's energy infrastructure.

The private contractor that employed the Missouri man killed while helping firefighters battle the massive Nuns Fire in Napa County this week was not providing its employees with workers’ compensation insurance at the time of his death, according to state fire officials. Garrett Paiz, 38, died Monday after his water truck overturned while he drove down … Continue reading State Investigating Employer of Driver Killed Fighting North Bay Wildfires →

Lawmakers have been looking at how training and reporting is handled on Capitol Hill. The move is in response to a recent wave of sexual harassment scandals and allegations.

Mayer, who was on the job as TikTok's chief executive for three months, said while it is the right time for him to step down a "resolution" for the company will happen "very soon."

Tropical Storm Laura is expected to make landfall on the Texas-Louisiana border late Wednesday or early Thursday. Forecasts have both storms bringing heavy rain to some of the same areas in Louisiana.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Indivar Dutta-Gupta of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality on the expanded child tax credit in the stimulus bill and how it'd reduce poverty among children.

The Census Bureau has stopped trying to produce a count of unauthorized immigrants, ending the agency's role in Trump's bid to alter census numbers used for reallocating House seats, NPR has learned.