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As U.S. health insurance costs rise, some companies are paying for all of their workers' premiums. It's a big expense — but they say it pays off.

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Chris Kraus about her new novel, The Four Spent the Day Together.

The court's conservative majority could invalidate the section of the Voting Rights Act aimed at ensuring minority voters are not shut out of the process of drawing new congressional district lines.

The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country.

They're framing it as a way to share data and messages about threats, emergency preparedness and public health policy at a time when the federal government isn't doing its job in public health.

A Supreme Court case over Louisiana's congressional map could determine the future of Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination and allow Republicans to draw 19 more House seats.

Conspiracy theories about health fill a vacuum created by the lack of doctors in many rural communities. Meanwhile, doctors in these areas say patients have become increasingly distrustful and sometimes hostile.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday hears a case that could strike down the last major part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that remains standing.

There was no physical barrier between the U.S. and Mexico for decades -- until one critical battle at the border changed it all.

As an increasing number of Florida food-stamp recipients have to meet work requirements, the state faces a potentially significant tab from the federal government.