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When a special coating was added to the opioid Opana, it deterred people from abusing the pills by crushing and snorting them. But some users soon learned how to prepare the pills for injection.

In 1966, Texas Western became the first team with an all-black starting five to win the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Dave Lattin played center, and his grandson plays Saturday for Oklahoma.

NPR's Ari Shaprio speaks with James Bentham, a research associate at the Imperial College London. He's one of the authors of a report on global obesity published in the journal Lancet. He says the study shows there are now more obese people than underweight people worldwide.

Hillary Clinton is hoping that her eight years as a senator from New York state will help her win the presidential primary here April 19. In a campaign…

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will come to Albany Monday to meet with Assembly and Senate Democrats.Heastie…

President Obama has hosted his last summit aimed at grappling with the dangers of loose nukes. NPR takes a look at what has been accomplished at these summits and what work still needs to be done.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with University of Washington Professor Jacob Vigdor about the state of the minimum wage in Seattle, as California and New York move to lift their minimum wages to $15.

A rapidly growing number of people in the U.S. work in non-traditional jobs. Uber represents one segment of these people, but a much larger share are temporary employees, freelancers, and contractors who work as janitors, cafeteria workers, payroll officers and more. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Princeton economist Alan Krueger about his research into alternative work arrangements.

It wasn't what Sanders said that got young people's attention — it was what he had on his head.

What happened when teens in a conservative Muslim neighborhood in Kolkata began watching lush, romantic Bollywood films.