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The Justice Department will deploy more than 500 people to help watch polling places on Election Day. That's a significant decrease since the last presidential contest.

Nationwide, fewer than 10 percent of people who need kidney dialysis do it at home. But close to 40 percent of patients of a Montana doctor do it at home. Medicare is hoping that becomes a trend.

Gunmen stormed Kabul University in Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least 19 people. It was the second attack on a learning center in Kabul in recent days. ISIS claimed responsibility.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Dr. Traci Green, deputy director of injury prevention at Boston Medical Center about the stunning show increase in the number of hospital visits related to opioids.

The Senegalese president declared three days of mourning and said he will hold an inter-ministerial council to discuss road safety measures. More than 70 other people were injured in the crash.

Researcher Kari Leibowitz traveled to places with some of the harshest winters on Earth to understand how people thrive in the cold and dark. Her findings may inspire you to find comfort and joy in the season.

The bombing is the second in as many days in Damascus and is thought to be part of a stepped-up campaign against the government.

A day after a fire killed 17 people and injured dozens at an apartment building in the Bronx, residents try to regroup. An investigation is underway.

In 2016, a former Disney animator gave his followers a challenge: draw a mermaid every day for the month of May. Today, prompts motivate people to make pieces of mermaid art.

Nine days after Hurricane Fiona, hundreds of thousands in Puerto Rico still lack electricity. Mayors are calling on retired electrical workers, despite threats legal from the private electric utility.