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At least 100 people on the Navajo Nation have died from the virus and 3,122 people have tested positive. Several factors, including lack of running water, make the situation there difficult.

"We don't want Dallas or New Orleans or Chicago to turn into the next New York," U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said Monday morning.

With more than 500 injured, the massacre Sunday night in Las Vegas was a huge test for the region's trauma centers. KQED's John Sepulvado reports from one of them.

A 60-year-old Florida man is in federal custody over a case of apparent human smuggling in Texas. San Antonio emergency personnel found 39 people in the back of a truck in a Walmart parking lot.

All over Ukraine, the attacks from Russia are taking a toll on the people. The Jewish community is turning to their rabbis for shelter and security.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Chicago Sun-Times reporter Sophie Sherry about a spate of shootings in the Chicago area that killed at least 11 people.

Not everyone's as brave as Angelina Jolie. Many people don't want to know their risk of disease, even though knowing could make it possible to reduce that risk. A study finds that thinking about the pluses and minuses of knowing made it easier for people to accept that information.

At least 232 people are dead and 100 injured in the fire that broke out during a college party at Kiss, a nightclub in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul state. The toll could make it one of the deadliest nightclub fires in more than a decade.

NPR's Jason Beaubien is covering the outbreak that began in March and is still going strong. En route to the burial of a 70-year-old Ebola victim, he talked about the impact on the town of Kailahun.

The topics for study didn't matter much to people who said they were willing to share. Every category — ranging from safety issues to health costs — scored at least 90 percent in the NPR poll.