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A woman who caught pneumonic plague in Colorado last summer likely contracted it from her friend or his dog. Antibiotics limited the outbreak to four people and cured them.

A civil war, genocide, a failed coup. No wonder Burundi was named the world's least happy country. But one Burundian disagrees with the ranking.

The Earned Income Tax Credit has been embraced by every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama.

After more than 40 years as the Kinks' lead singer and primary songwriter, Ray Davies has released his first solo studio recording, Other People's Lives. Despite the album's title, the music is really about him. The 61-year-old says the characters that he sings and writes about are a reflection of who he is.

Poet and author Kevin Coval talks about his new book of poems, A People's History of Chicago. The book tells the stories of the city's marginalized communities.

The eight people killed in the derailment of Amtrak's Northeast Regional Train 188 include a Wall Street executive and a Navy Midshipman. Others are still considered missing or in critical condition.

TV correspondents and pundits spoke it, Twitter users typed it. They said the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was what happens in "Third World" countries. There's a problem with that.

The Zika outbreak is spreading to Southeast Asia. More than 150 people have contracted the virus in Singapore.

As temperatures drop around the country, unhoused people are especially vulnerable. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to hotel shelter worker Yusra Murad about the challenge of keeping people safe and warm.

As electronic communication grows more pervasive, demand is growing for paid retreats where you have to surrender all electronic devices. One participant says giving up his phone for a weekend was "liberating"; another says she was inspired to observe tech-free Friday nights.