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U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos began serving as the first Latino to head the federal government's largest statistical agency in January.

U.S. census director says the bureau needs to reduce chances of meddling after Trump

Newly sworn-in Census Bureau Director Robert Santos told NPR it's important to make sure there are policies in place to better protect the agency from any future political interference.

Anti-abortion demonstrators watch as abortion rights protestors chant in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on May 5.

7 persistent claims about abortion, fact-checked

Several not-quite-right claims have continued to linger about abortion since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

Dolly Parton and James Patterson pose for a picture in August 2021. Their new novel, <em>Run, Rose, Run</em>, is about an aspiring country singer in Nashville.

'Dreams do still come true' in a new novel by Dolly Parton and James Patterson

Parton didn't just co-write the novel, she also recorded a whole album to go with it. Run, Rose, Run is about an aspiring country singer trying to shake a dark past and make it big in music.

A person arrives for a monkeypox vaccination at a New York health care center.

Monkeypox: The myths, misconceptions — and facts — about how you catch it

Is it a sexually transmitted disease? Can you get it on a crowded bus? Trying on clothes? We talk to specialists about how this virus is transmitted and what kinds of precautions are warranted.

More than 200,000 internally displaced Ukrainians have temporarily settled in the western city of Lviv, which is home to 725,000 in normal times.

Lviv takes in displaced Ukrainians but space and resources are strained

Space and resources are strained in the western city of Lviv. More than 200,000 Ukrainians have temporarily settled in the city while Russian airstrikes continued this past week.

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra says doctors who are balking at the rules of the No Surprises Act aren't looking out for patients. "I don't think when someone is overcharging that it's going to hurt the overcharger to now have to [accept] a fair price," Becerra says. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Biden team's rules would push insurance premiums down by 0.5% to 1%.

Doctors are mad about surprise billing rules. Becerra says stop gouging patients

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra says health providers who have exploited a complicated system to charge exorbitant rates will have to bear their share of the cost — or close.

President Biden has said he plans to make his mind up about who to nominate to the Supreme Court by the end of February.

These are the people believed to be front-runners for Biden's Supreme Court pick

President Biden has pledged to choose a Black woman to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court — and the White House is looking at a broad list of potential candidates.

President Biden speaks at the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference on Friday in Philadelphia.

Fed's coming interest rate hikes may present another economic challenge for Democrats

In an attempt to curb high inflation, the Federal Reserve is expected this week to begin raising interest rates for the first time in three years.

Here's where abortions are now banned or severely restricted

Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, numerous states have banned abortion. Here are the states with bans or severe restrictions in effect, on hold or pending.

Shaun White trains before the men's halfpipe finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou, China.

Look back at the McTwists and turns of Shaun White's golden snowboarding career

The man who fiercely shreds halfpipes openly shed tears on the snow, saying he was proud of his effort. It closed the book on a record-setting Olympic career.

Neil Kramer and Sophia Lansky are ex-spouses and roommates in the Queens borough of New York.

Three's company: A man sticks out the pandemic with his ex-wife and his mother

What might sound like a nightmare for many became a reality for exes Neil Kramer and Sophia Lansky when COVID hit New York. And somehow, they made it work. Kramer photographed their chaotic ordeal.

Tree planters walk into a cut block with no road access, carrying food, water and a full load of trees to be planted. Unpaid walk-ins of up to an hour are not uncommon in remote areas.

How planting trees fostered a sense of belonging and changed this filmmaker's life

Cinematographer Luc Forsyth documents the back-breaking manual labor and niche community of tree planting.

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