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Scientists are getting closer to developing a wearable patch that can measure hydration and other health markers — in sweat. The hope is it could give athletes more data to boost their performance.

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has a plan to save the U.S. economy — a Universal Basic Income, which he says will take the country by storm.

Reporting from Tehran, NPR's Steve Inskeep talks about how the Trump administration's decision to reimpose sanctions is affecting Iranians and whom they blame for their economic woes.

A former pathologist was under scrutiny after being found drunk on the job. A review of his work found more than 3,000 misdiagnoses of patients.

One of the ways Native tribes in the West celebrate their history and culture is through annual summer horse races. They're known as Indian Relays, and tribes call them America's first extreme sport.

Saying the flag immortalizes an era of racial segregation, the Equality Court rules that it is "a vivid symbol of white supremacy and black disenfranchisement and suppression."

The deficit is expected to swell to $960 billion this year and average $1.2 trillion in each of the next 10 years, according to congressional budget forecasters. They also expect the economy to slow.

The president and the White House aren't closing the door to new background checks for gun buyers or other shifts in policy — but it isn't clear how close they'll ever get to Democrats' proposals.

How do Americans experience and cope with pain that makes everyday life harder? We asked in the latest NPR-IBM Watson Health Poll.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Josephine Wolff, a professor at Tufts University, about software that is available to help ransomware victims recover their files and why it is rarely used in the U.S.