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While Washington D.C., and other cities on the East Coast deal with snow, folks in the Deep South got hit too. People in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and North Carolina all got slammed.

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has revived the debate over a single-payer health care system. NPR explores the arguments for and against it.

A top EPA official resigned Thursday over the handling of the ongoing water contamination crisis in Flint, Mich. The role of the EPA and whether the federal agency should have done more has been a recurring theme in White House discussions this week.

They may be half a world away from each other, but both are dealing with the awful effects of lead poisoning.

In a widely watched case, judges ruled 7-7 against a first-of-its-kind Kansas law that bans a common method of performing second-trimester abortions.

When a fetus dies late in pregnancy, doctors often don't investigate. And the U.S. isn't making much progress in reducing the risk of these tragic losses.

A program in Philadelphia folds lessons in English as a second language into a cooking class. The goal is to add a dash of the familiar to ESL class for new arrivals, and teach healthful eating, too.

Many of us are already sick of hearing about the white stuff — and we haven't even felt the wrath of Ol' Man Winter yet.