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Many favorite holiday traditions could be treacherous this year because of the coronavirus. Here's how experts view the risks — and some creative, safer alternatives to keep up a festive mood.

Underscoring the severity of the U.S. overdose crisis, a first-of-its kind opioid intervention court aims to get drug-addicted criminal defendants into recovery before their criminal case is heard.

An NPR investigation has raised questions about whether the nonprofit Conservative Partnership Institute may be violating a legal ban on participating in political campaign activities.

NPR's Ron Elving says historian Robert Dallek's latest tome "emphasizes the human scale of FDR's life, his interaction with the people around him and the interplay among his intimates."

Here are the new releases coming your way between now and Thanksgiving — we've got award contenders, goofy comedies, a smattering of romance, plenty of anti-heroes, and a musical documentary in LEGOs.

Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. The risk is especially high for the millions of Americans who live in manufactured housing like mobile homes and trailers.

President Nicolas Maduro is calling it a terrorist attack, but there's a lot of confusion about who was behind the dramatic incident. Maduro's opponents suggest it was an inside job.

The G-20 summit was dominated by Europe's debt crisis and the fear that it could spread. For now, world leaders are hoping that Europe can largely solve the problem on its own.

The former president blasted Republicans who have crossed him and kept up repeated election lies in an NPR interview.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Roxanne Roberts of the Washington Post and Dr. Nadine Kaslow, former president of the American Psychological Association, following two recent high-profile suicides.