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These businesses have exploded in popularity during the pandemic, and now Apple is getting on board. But are these interest-free payment installments too good to be true?

Science writer Susan Freinkel chronicles the rise of plastic in consumer culture — and its effects on the environment and our health — in Plastic: A Toxic Love Story. Freinkel says plastics leach potentially harmful chemicals into our bloodstream — and that scientists are now figuring out what that does to our bodies.

Communities around the US are rushing to spend billions in opioid settlement money paid out by Big Pharma. The Cherokee Nation is investing $100 million in treatment, harm reduction and a fight against stigma.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with the California Democrat, who emphasized gun control in his now-suspended presidential campaign.

Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Waveland, Miss. A deadly and destructive storm surge nearly 30 feet high washed away the town. Twenty years later, it's still trying to recover.

People who stormed the Capitol were radicalized by what they consumed online and in social media. That should sound familiar: Ten years ago, ISIS used a similar strategy to lure Americans to Syria.

Even though GOP efforts to repeal The Affordable Care Act have fizzled, the administration has lots of ways to change the law without needing congressional approval.

NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the timeline of events as presented by local officials.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention accepted a controversial recommendation from outside vaccine advisers to tighten guidelines for the COVID vaccine.

It wasn't exactly a tie. But then again, it was a rather bountiful year for jazz albums. The pollmaster breaks down the result, and by extension, the year in jazz.