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With all the concern about opioid addiction, some patients are worried and want to stop taking powerful medication. Tapering the drugs gradually may be a better way to do that than going cold turkey.

What evidence ties Russia's intelligence services to the theft and release of the internal emails of Democratic Party officials? And how would the public release those messages serve Moscow?

More than 35 million eligible voters in the U.S. have a disability. And in the last presidential election, almost a third of voters with disabilities reported having trouble casting their ballots.

NPR's Michel Martin has this remembrance for her friend, journalist Gwen Ifill, who died last week at the age of 61.

Iraqi forces recently drove the Islamic State from the ancient site of Nimrud. But during its stay, the extremists shattered friezes, leaving cuneiform texts strewn around the site.

The Affordable Care Act requires that insurers cover maternity services, birth control and screening such as mammograms. Trump administration plans to repeal Obamacare could end that.

Magnet schools for science or languages are not so unusual nowadays. But at one career high school in Phoenix, students focus on a subject that's a bit more surprising: how to become police officers.

The term is used disparagingly, as in a fruit that's soft and tends to bruise easily. But millennials say they are building a new economy for their own generation.

Steve Inskeep talks to Mike DeBonis of The Washington Post about his report that President Obama is considering Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada as a possible Supreme Court nominee.

The FBI and Apple are sparring over the agency's request that Apple help it unlock the cell phone of a terrorist. iPhone users have differing views on who's right.