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North and South Carolina have very different outlooks since the Trump administration cut funding for the helpers who assist people signing up for health insurance.

Twitter has said it will ban all ads from Russian news agencies effective immediately. The company made the decision as a result of role these agencies had in interfering with the 2016 election.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to attorney Amy Oppenheimer about what kinds of policies can prevent sexual harassment in the workplace — and whether the ones already implemented have done any good.

Gary Mendell lost his son to addiction in 2011, and went on to form the group Shatterproof, which advocates for better prevention and treatment for addiction. He was at the White House today to hear President Trump's announcement designating the nation's opioid crisis a public health emergency, and he shares his reactions with NPR's Robert Siegel.

A year after Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej died, he was cremated as part of an elaborate send-off. Bhumibol Adulyadej was the world's longest reigning monarch and 88 at the time of his death.

After the Las Vegas massacre, lawmakers launched an effort to regulate bump stocks, devices which allow semi-automatic weapons to shoot like machine guns. Now, that effort appears to have stalled.

The group has operated in the country for 30 years. The decision comes after an unprecedented attack on a physiotherapist in September.

John Kapoor, who co-founded Insys Therapeutics, has been charged with racketeering and fraud for allegedly bribing doctors to overprescribe the company's powerful opioid spray.

Also: Defense Secretary Mattis visits South Korea; turnout for Kenya's presidential election was quite low; and two women sailing from Hawaii are rescued after being lost at sea for months.

Barnaby Joyce's name may be familiar to Americans: In 2015, he took Johnny Depp to task for flouting Australia's import laws by bringing two dogs into the country.