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Many Americans with mental illness report waiting weeks for care, even for serious depression or suicidality. Now California has a new law for insurers, limiting those wait times to two weeks or less.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about President Biden's latest student loan debt forgiveness plan.

R&B legend Curtis Mayfield's 1967 hit "We're a Winner" broke ground as one of the first commercial hits centered on Black pride during the civil rights movement.

As he prepares to leave his post of 12 years, Francis Collins reflects on the agency's biomedical advances, the dangers of polarizing medicine and the huge health gaps that still exist in the U.S.

The evacuees are being housed at March Air Reserve Base in California — and the quarantine order comes after one of them tried to leave the base.

Planet Money talks to immigrants in the U.S. and people in Honduras to try to figure out why remittances are surging to some countries right as it is harder for immigrants here to find work.

On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun rights; and Epstein files should be released, in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.

A new NPR/Ipsos poll shows that big numbers of Americans believe incorrectly that "most" of the fentanyl entering the U.S. is smuggled by migrants. It's not the only misleading claim getting traction.

Republicans overwhelmingly believe elections are fair, but non-white voters, women and Democrats are much more skeptical. Nonwhite voters also experience longer lines than white voters.

NPR's Rob Schmitz asks North Carolina State University's Rob Handfield how President-elect Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China could affect consumer costs in the U.S.