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The conversation around gun violence in the U.S. usually focuses on homicides and mass shootings, and there is little information about the public health, financial, psychological and social toll of nonfatal gun injuries.

After 25 Years In The Dark, The CDC Wants To Study The True Toll Of Guns In America

We don't know the full impact of nonfatal firearms-related injuries. Unreliable data and political pressure have obscured the picture for researchers, the media and the public. That may soon change.

A staff member guides a taxi at one of the entrances at the Olympic and Paralympic Village in Tokyo.

Two Athletes Have Tested Positive For COVID-19 Inside The Olympic Village

With the Tokyo Games less than a week away, the positive tests are the first among athletes inside the Olympic Village.

Antigone Davis, Facebook's global head of safety, testifies remotely Thursday before a Senate subcommittee following leaks of internal research showing the company knows the harm its apps cause young people.

Senators Blast Facebook For Concealing Instagram's Risks To Kids

Days after Facebook's Instagram "paused" work on an app for kids under 13, U.S. senators grilled the company's head of safety about how both platforms negatively affect teens and young people.

A photo of Leo Perez at Purdue University's football stadium in 1995. He played as a four-year starting defensive tackle at Purdue.

Meet 4 people who worry about CTE, but never played in the NFL

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is infamous in the NFL. But there's a quiet population of everyday people who never played pro sports yet fear CTE. Here are some of their stories.

We asked how you are finding joy in the pandemic. Here are 12 surprising ideas

It's been two long years of COVID gloom. But NPR's readers didn't let it keep them down. From cicada tracking to open-water swimming to roller-skating squads, you share how you bring the fun.

Signs reading "vote" hang outside the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., in March as workers wrapped up their seven-week mail-in election on whether to unionize.

Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama May Get To Vote Again On Union

A federal labor official found that Amazon's anti-union tactics may have tainted last spring's voting process sufficiently to scrap its results. Workers had rejected unionization more than 2-to-1.

Members of the 40+ Double Dutch Club gather regularly to jump rope and connect with other women.

Women Are Gathering To Jump Rope And Make Connections In The 40+ Double Dutch Club

The Chicago-based 40+ Double Dutch Club has more than a hundred chapters across the country and two internationally. Founder Pamela Robinson says it's about more than just jumping rope.

Jane Goodall encourages all to act to save Earth in 'The Book of Hope'

The primatologist says it's crucial that young people know how positive action can still shift the frightening trajectories of climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and the ongoing global pandemic.

Beds fill a homeless shelter inside the San Diego Convention Center Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, in San Diego.

Mayor Gloria Announces End Of Operation Shelter To Home and Relocation Efforts

Mayor Todd Gloria announced that residents of a homeless shelter at the San Diego Convention Center will be relocated to the city's reconfigured shelters.

Workers in protective suits clean the contaminated beach after an oil spill in Huntington Beach, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. The Coast Guard received the first report of a possible oil spill off the Southern California coast more than 12 hours before a company reported a major leak in its pipeline and a cleanup effort was launched, records show.

Mystery lingers around cause of California oil pipeline leak

What caused a 13-inch crack in an oil pipeline off the Southern California coast that fouled famed surfing beaches?

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