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It has been one year since Jimmy Carter entered hospice, which often is for patients facing incurable diseases. Contrary to popular belief, starting hospice doesn't mean giving up on life.

The jury's been out on whether low blood levels of vitamin D increase the risk of colorectal cancer. Researchers say a new review involving more than 12,000 people strongly suggests the answer is yes.

President Trump visited police officers and National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., where their presence in the nation's capital is inciting strong reactions from city residents.

The author of the Adam Dalgliesh mystery series has a new book, a nonfiction work called Talking About Detective Fiction. She tells Linda Wertheimer why we might be entering a second "golden age" for the detective story.

Authorities are looking for the North Carolina man they say shot a kindergartner and three others. It's the fourth high-profile incident this week in which apparent mistakes were met with gunshots.

Across the country, about one in five child care workers are immigrants. In D.C., it’s more like 40%.

The world's largest democratic polling exercise will take place until early June, in which Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to win a third term in a landslide.

The nation's capital is the hunting ground of crime writer David Baldacci, the brains behind of dozens of high-level government conspiracies involving the CIA, the FBI and even the White House.

A year after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a new NPR/Ipsos poll finds that Americans are pessimistic about the future of democracy, as false claims about the 2020 election persist.

The House committee investigating Jan. 6 says it has evidence showing that former President Trump broke the law by trying to overturn the 2020 election.