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The CDC is dropping its isolation guidance for COVID, instead advising around respiratory viruses in general. The change reflects the reality that severe outcomes are less frequent, says the director.

A heat wave along the East Coast and in the Midwest leads to closings, shorter school days.

The death toll from raging forest fires in Chile has risen to at least 122, doubling in the past 24 hours. Some 300 people remain missing.

Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians — and an assault on a U.S. media crew — draw rare Israeli condemnations, but no arrests.

It's two life sentences for the man who shot and killed one Minnesota lawmaker and her husband and wounded another lawmaker and his wife. A plea deal allowed the shooter to escape execution.

First, they were struck by illness and then by medical bills they couldn't pay. Here are 15 stories of Americans living under the shadow of health care debt.

It sounds so simple: Order a kit online, test for sexually transmitted diseases in the privacy of home and mail it back. But deciding what to test for and who gets tested is far from easy.

Hunger, violence and catastrophic flooding are leading more families to flee Honduras for the southern U.S. border than any other country. At least 200 families a day are asking for asylum.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Brian de Los Santos about "Finding Home con DACA," his three-part series for the LAist studios podcast How To LA.

The declines many school districts reported last year have continued, an NPR investigation finds. What educators don't know is where those students have gone.