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A bag of assorted pills and prescription drugs dropped off for disposal is displayed during the Drug Enforcement Administration's 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day earlier this year in Los Angeles. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 100,000 people died of a drug overdose from April 2020 to April 2021.

Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. have topped 100,000 for the first time

The Biden administration scrambles to respond as new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show overdose deaths surged to more than 100,000 fatalities.

The Navajo Nation Museum will premier a Navajo-dubbed version of Clint Eastwood's 1964 classic, <em>A Fistful of Dollars</em> on Tuesday.

Dubbing 'A Fistful of Dollars' to spread the Navajo language

The Navajo Nation Museum is bringing a newly voiced version of the classic spaghetti Western to the Navajo Nation.

New mineral 'davemaoite' made an unlikely journey from the depths of the Earth

A rare mineral from Earth's lower mantle has been discovered inside a diamond from Botswana. The find breaks open a window into deep-Earth chemistry.

Council member Inga Selders stands at her childhood home, where she lives in Prairie Village, Kan. Selders stumbled upon a racially restrictive housing covenant in her homeowners association property records. She's working to remove it<strong> </strong>but has faced pushback from other council members, as they think amendments to these covenants suffice and removing them would be removing history.

Racial covenants, a relic of the past, are still on the books across the country

Racial covenants made it illegal for Black people to live in white neighborhoods. Now they're illegal, but you might still have one on your home's deed. And they're hard to remove.

Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., was censured by the House of Representatives and lost his committee assignments after posting a violent video on social media of a character with his image murdering a character with New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's image.

Rep. Gosar is censured over an anime video depicting him killing AOC

The mainly party line vote of 223-207 came after GOP Rep. Gosar posted a video on social media with an animated scene of him murdering Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Some doctors, medical associations and members of Congress are complaining that the rule released by the Biden administration this fall for implementing the law to stop surprise medical bills actually favors insurers and doesn't follow the spirit of the legislation.

Biden's plan to stop surprise medical bills faces bipartisan pushback in Congress

Congress passed a law last year to shield patients from surprise out-of-network medical charges. But many doctors in the House now say the way the law is to be implemented unfairly favors insurers.

Heather Russell advocates for her 16-year-old son, Ethan Russell, living with Floating Harbor Syndrome, Del Cerro, Nov. 16, 2021

Parents sue for medically fragile children who need distance learning

Parents suing the California Department of Education for distance learning to support their medically fragile children.

As migrants travel to the U.S., the U.S. tries to stop them south of the border

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with journalists Maria Hinojosa and Julieta Martinelli about their reporting in Mexico and Colombia on the policies designed to stop migrants from reaching the U.S border.

This May 16, 2015, file photo shows a service boat carrying workers back to shore from a platform off Seal Beach, Calif.

San Diego supervisors throw support behind stopping new offshore drilling

The American Coasts and Oceans Protection Act, written by U.S. Rep. Mike Levin, D-Oceanside, came about following the Oct. 1 oil spill off the coast of Huntington Beach.

The San Diego VA Medical Center in La Jolla is shown on Sept. 26, 2019.

House OKs bill to rename San Diego's VA center after soldier killed in action

Rep. Mike Levin, D-Oceanside, wrote the legislation to rename the center after Capt. Jennifer M. Moreno, who died in Afghanistan in October 2013.

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