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It was a busy day for Gov. Jay Nixon, as his final year in office heads toward the halfway point. He told reporters Tuesday that he signed seven more...

Kansas City-area hospitals vary greatly when it comes to the percentage of their doctors who accept money from drug and medical device companies. The...

Street art is hanging out in high places this week in St. Louis. Not just around the top stories of abandoned buildings but in a space known for fine...

All Songs Considered asked you to share your favorite new artist of the first half of 2016. Here's your top 10.

Our favorite 2016 news and stories of the day curated from NPR and around the web.

Surgery can be emotionally and physically stressful for children. A California anesthesiologist has come up with a way to reduce anxiety that's safer, cheaper and much more entertaining.

Cathleen Schine's new novel explores how one character's physical and mental decline ripples out to affect his whole family. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls it a mix of "fun and bad behavior."

Turkey is currently battling Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Islamic State and Kurdish separatists in southeast Turkey. All the battles are draining the country, and none is going well.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is proposing that travelers covered by the Visa Waiver Program be asked to provide their social media account information. The field would be optional.

They have provided physical evidence to a famous story of heroism during the Holocaust — known before only through the testimony of the 11 Jews who escaped a Lithuanian massacre site.