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In 2008, Barack Obama found Clinton barely "likeable enough" but needed her support after he secured the Democratic nomination. Now, she's getting the president's endorsement.

"History doesn't reward timidity," Vanita Gupta, who runs the Justice Department's civil rights unit, said recently. She's at the center of fights over transgender rights and police accountability.

An appeals court in Sweden says M&M's should melt from the market, because they look too similar to another candy.

Joe Palca was fresh out of college in 1975 when he got a job as a lab tech, working for a young scientist and country music fan who would one day harness the immune system to fight cancer.

Melanoma can be a deadly skin cancer, but 10 years ago, biologist Jim Allison figured out a way to tweak the body's immune system to go after those malignant cells. Some patients are now cancer-free.

A study offers a rare look at how well toddlers are doing in low- and middle-income countries.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Baltimore attorney Steven Levin who has successfully defended police against misconduct charges ranging up to murder. He talks about the start of the trial against the driver of the police van, in which Freddie Gray suffered lethal injuries. The driver is accused of deliberately giving Gray a "rough ride."

The fight over who gets to vote when is heating up in Ohio, which has become the epicenter of legal fights over voter access.

The New Mexico Department of Health is reporting a nine percent drop in drug overdoses in 2015.A nine percent drop means about 50 fewer people died from…

For the first time in 40 years, the federal government is changing the way it regulates toxic chemicals. The new chemical safety act will overhaul a…