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One in five people getting health care through the Affordable Care Act no longer have a choice of insurers. But those markets don't have significantly higher prices than areas with competition.

A deal on the table in Congress would help deliver on a long-time promise: to make prescription drugs more affordable. It includes a $2,000 cap on out-of-pocket expenses for Medicare patients.

The two major presidential candidates have very different approaches to health policy. What are they, and how might they shape health care access over the next four years?

A new memoir by folk artist Eugene Rodriguez explores his work resurrecting traditional Mexican music with youth in The Bay Area. It's called "Bird of Four Hundred Voices."

The gunman who killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis had a gun confiscated by police, but he was still able to buy others. It's raising questions about the state's red flag law.

Ford died at home in Charlotte, N.C. She lived through the 1918 pandemic, the Great Depression, both world wars, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement and the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the latest announcement from the Biden administration, here's a look at what so-called "ghost guns" are and what the government's new rule does.

Nearly three weeks after the mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo and 10 days after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, New York state lawmakers passed a sweeping gun control package.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Daniel Webster of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions about what the word "epidemic" means when it comes to gun violence.

The new Leonardo DiCaprio movie Blood Diamond, set in 1990's Sierra Leone, has raised awareness about so-called "conflict diamonds" -- diamonds mined in war zones and sold to finance insurgent warfare. Michele Norris talks with Alex Yearsley, with Global Witness, about what consumers can do to avoid buying these gems.

The Treasury Department on Sunday proposed a three-part rescue plan to bolster housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The plan aims to calm jittery investors while enabling the two government-chartered companies to remain public.

Last year, more than 760 people were shot. Canada has tighter gun laws than in the U.S., and officials and gun control advocates are trying to figure out why the surge is happening and how to stop it.