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Hundreds of A-list celebrities have signed on to support the Committee for the First Amendment, an organization that was created during the Red Scare after World War II, to defend free speech.

For much of the 31-year story of the AIDS epidemic, it was virtually taboo to use the word "cure." Now, after decades of focus on prevention and treatment, Deeks and other researchers say that it's time to put new emphasis on the search for a cure.

Washington Post sports columnist Kevin Blackistone, conservative commentator Lenny McAllister and ESPN magazine writer Pablo Torre discuss whether sports and politics can be separated.

Before COVID-19 hit, tuberculosis was on its way out in Peru. But COVID-related disruptions to treatments could mean the rise of drug-resistant strains and twice as many deaths.

We've heard again and again that crime is rising. But the reality is far more complex, in part because of how we define crime in the first place.

Most people associate the character of Quasimodo with physical deformity. But after years of ringing the bells of Notre Dame, he was also extremely hard of hearing. So Melody Lane Theatre teamed up with the Sally J. Pimentel Deaf and Hard of Hearing Center to teach the cast of "Hunchback of Notre Dame" sign language and familiarize them with deaf culture.

About 1 in 5 people killed by police since 2015 were having a mental health crisis. Like other cities, Philadelphia is trying a new approach: sending along social workers to respond to those calls.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Isabella Gomez Sarmiento and Anastasia Tsioulcas tell us what it was like to cover a major celebrity criminal trial, for this week's Reporter's Notebook. Covering the spectacle and complexity of the Sean Combs trial required both modern and old-school reporting techniques.

Congress told the Transportation Security Administration and airlines in 2018 to improve air travel for people with disabilities. But TSA data and stories from flyers suggest little has improved.

Violent protests erupted in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indonesia, fueled in part by reaction to the anti-Islam film that sparked violence in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere. Religion plays a key role in these protests, but many observers also cite politics, internal power struggles and history.