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NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Jason Rezaian, who was imprisoned in Iran when he was the Tehran correspondent for The Washington Post, about the country's current wave of protest.

The Trump administration has cut nearly 2 billion dollars in funding for programs that serve people with mental illness and substance abuse issues. Providers say the cuts are devastating.

President Trump announced a plan that addresses drug costs and health savings accounts, but not the health insurance premium spikes that millions of Americans are facing.

Europe is increasingly alarmed by Trump's talk of annexing Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory in the EU and NATO, especially after the U.S. incursion in Venezuela last weekend.

Orlando Higginbottom, the electronic music artist who performs as TEED, on the sounds and influences behind his new album, 'Always With Me'.

Eyder Peralta, NPR international correspondent, on racing to the Venezuela border after the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro, and the obstacles keeping journalists from getting into the country.

David Hecht reports from Senegal on a unique educational program which has been quite successful in getting whole villages to renounce the traditional practice of female circumcision. The approach is built around a series of two-month courses which focus on a range of topics, from hygiene to human rights. The program goes on for a full year before the subject of female circumcision is even raised. Facilitators do not say it is wrong, or that it inhibits sexual pleasure; they merely focus on the procedure's health risks.

250 years after Thomas Paine published 'Common Sense', what can we learn from the revolutionary work today?

The food giant is among many big brands worried as shoppers pull back on snack budgets after years of stubborn inflation.

Miguel turned up in the NPR Music offices early one morning, after playing a show late the night before. Calm and good-natured, he betrayed no hint that he was nervous about stripping his highly produced hits down to their bones.