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A bipartisan Senate bill, dropping Thursday, promises better health care for some of the poorest, sickest Americans, who are known as "duals" because they qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid.

The term dates back to the 19th century when white traders would swap "firewater" for Indian goods and "off the reservation" was "a lonely and dangerous place for an aboriginal American to be."

A top adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to NPR about the latest Ukrainian military advances and Russia's plan to hold a referendum in territory it occupies.

Senate Republicans on Thursday unveiled their plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare. The long-awaited plan marks a…

More than 100 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci are on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It's the first showing of its kind in the United States. NPR's David D'Arcy reports.

Commentator and George Mason University economics professor Dr. Walter Williams takes on a range of issues in his new book, everything from the…

In his latest book, former Washington Post East Asia Bureau Chief Blaine Harden reveals the story of a rogue American spy who operated on the Korean…

Legendary American Filmmaker, MARTIN SCORCESE. As part of a retrospective of his work by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Department of Cinema Studies at Tisch School of the Arts last week presented "An Evening With Martin Scorcese" a wide ranging question and answer session taped live before an audience at New York University. We play portions of this discussion, where Scorcese examines the art of cinema and his own body of work. For the next several months, the cable channel Cinemax is running "Martin Scorcese Presents", a collection of six of the director's favorite films, hosted and with an introduction by Scorcese.

Andrew Roby is an American on vacation in Barcelona and was in the vicinity when a van drove into a crowd of people killing at least a dozen and injuring at least 50.

American Roger D. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize a half-century ago, was awarded the prize in chemistry Wednesday for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins.