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NPR's A Martinez speaks with Brookings Institution fellow Rashawn Ray about the deadly police shooting of a Black man in Akron, and how much police video can reveal about what happened.

In Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs described his bizarre and brutal upbringing. And in turn, his brother and his mother published their own accounts of the family saga. In rival memoirs, the three writers blur the lines between fact and fiction and tell their own versions of the truth.

With a strengthening dollar and rising commodity prices, developing nations are having a hard time paying their debts.

An international court convened in Cambodia to judge the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge regime that caused the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people in the 1970s ends its work Thursday.

Excerpt: 'Jesus Wars'

A new FDA rule is being praised for making hearing aids more affordable. But Medicare doesn't cover them, and neither do most insurance policies.

Last month, a viral Twitter thread sparked fear and debate about the ways consumer data was being stored and sold by big-box stores, and how this could take on a new dimension in a post-Roe world.

Randy Shiefer contracted COVID in the spring and was put in a medically induced coma. He describes his experience and brush with death.

Sri Lanka's parliament elected longtime politician Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country's new president in a secret ballot on Wednesday. Here's what led to this moment.

More than half the deaths occurred in western New York, which struggled with super-size snow drifts that snarled emergency vehicles. Buffalo's responders rescued hundreds trapped in cars.