The Social Security Administration reassigned some field office employees in an effort to bring down lengthy phone wait times ...

It was 35 years ago this month that the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law. Across the U.S., it's being ...

The earth doesn't rotate exactly on schedule. Scientists believe that today is going to be around a millisecond short of a ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with Tracy Slater, author of "Together in Manzanar," which tells the true story of a family of mixed heritage sent to a Japanese internment camp during World War II.

Western Kansas is the place for a quiet, rural lifestyle. But with that comes shortages when you need to see a doctor. Many ...

More than 5.2 million aboveground swimming pools sold across the U.S. and Canada over the last two decades are being recalled ...

Just 7% of homeowners in Texas have flood insurance through the federal government, which runs the biggest flood insurance ...

Waivers override certain Medicaid rules so that people with disabilities, chronic illness or injury can receive care at home instead of in a care facility. States choose which waiver programs to ...

In Nothing More of This Land, Aquinnah Wampanoag writer Joseph Lee takes readers past the celebrity summer scene and into the ...

A Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka, shortly after takeoff on Monday, ...

The legendary baseball player Babe Ruth was also a legendary eater. He reportedly ate 10 hot dogs a day … just to tide himself over between large meals of steak, fried potatoes and ice cream. But for ...

It costs nearly $100 million a year to maintain global stockpiles of vaccines for Ebola, cholera, meningitis and yellow fever ...