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When the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid, health experts warned that people in developing countries would die without money for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS, outreach.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Greenlandic parliamentary candidate Naaja Nathanielsen about the continued Trump administration push to acquire the territory.

For the first time, Medicare penalties against hospitals with too many avoidable patient safety complications include fines tied to the prevalence of two types of bacteria resistant to drugs.

"I'm as confident as I can be in the results that this is a very big candidate for something associated with the massacre," a senior researcher at the Oklahoma Archeological Survey said on Monday.

Huge wildfires are burning in the West — setting new records for damage this summer. These megafires are burning bigger and hotter than ever before. Scientists say climate change and a century-long policy of fire prevention — which inadvertently turned forests into giant tinderboxes — are to blame.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with writer Etgar Keret about his new book, Autocorrect. Many of the short stories were written before the war began, but he says they've taken on new meaning since then.

Kate Wells is a Peabody Award-winning journalist and co-host of the Michigan Radio and NPR podcast Believed. The series was widely ranked among the best of the year, drawing millions of downloads and numerous awards. She and co-host Lindsey Smith received the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Judges described their work as "a haunting and multifaceted account of U.S.A. Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar’s belated arrest and an intimate look at how an army of women – a detective, a prosecutor and survivors – brought down the serial sex offender."

The bidder that lost last month's auction of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' assets had complained that the process was rigged and "fatally flawed."

NPR's Michael Goldfarb reports that the World Health Organization said today that the link between mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease remains uncertain. But even if there is a connection, the WHO said current precautions would minimize any risk of acquiring the extremely rare disease from eating beef.

Commentator and novelist Reynolds Price says writing can indeed by taught -- at least to serious college students, who can learn serviceable prose. He adds that some skill at creative writing can be acquired, but superior creative work is the far rarer result of inborn "neural tilt," and early environment.