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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to actor and singer Mandy Patinkin about his new album Children and Art and what he plans on doing after the TV series Homeland ends.

This veteran of fighting HIV/AIDS around the world knows a thing or two about stopping epidemics. But are some of her assumptions too rosy?

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has bought a collection of early photographs, including very rare daguerreotypes from three early Black photographers dating to the mid 19th century.

With a federal judge poised to approve Purdue Pharma's controversial Chapter 11 plan, the company is working behind the scenes to preempt a legal challenge by the DOJ.

Clinical trials show Wegovy triples the average weight loss seen with other drugs. Whether it will reach many patients largely depends on whether insurers decide to cover it.

Descendants of Holocaust victims are in a race against time to preserve oral histories and artifacts before the last survivors are gone. One such effort is that of Alli Allen of Atlanta, who is donating hundreds of letters sent by her great-grandparents Blanka and Max Hartstein in Germany to her grandparents Paula Hartstein Marx and Hugh Marx, who’d fled to the United States in 1938, just one week before Kristallnacht.

In 2020, the engineering firm Morabito Consultants found "severely deteriorated" concrete in the Champlain Towers South condo building. Town officials say they weren't alerted.

Scientists who study mushrooms get a boost from a network of sophisticated aficionados who tromp through the forests observing oddball species and sharing valuable information about their finds.

Witnesses to a Syrian intelligence officer's alleged war crimes face down intimidation as they testify in landmark trial in Germany — but they continue to tell the story.

Colette Maze, now 107, began playing the piano at age 5. She defied the social conventions of her era to embrace music as a profession rather than as a pastime. She has just released her sixth album.