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Indiana University Hospital system is pairing patients with local faith groups to ease feelings of loneliness and isolation. The unique new program comes as more doctors are seeing a need to care for patients' spiritual as well as physical health.

In this week's installment of Cineplexity, NPR staffers contemplate the best director-actor collaborations in film.

Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing ended the lottery game's three-month stretch without a top-prize winner. Final ticket sales pushed the jackpot higher, making it the second-largest in U.S. history.

Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat serving on the House Armed Services Committee, says Trump administration officials offered "vague talk" in briefing about the long-term strategy for Venezuela.

Summer is hot in Rio, but this is hotter than normal. Mercury could top 107 degrees. And the record heat is triggering alerts and safety warnings.

In Iran, a pair of explosions killed more than 100 people and wounded many more, and a senior Hamas leader has been killed in Lebanon. No one has claimed responsibility for either incident.

It was a mystery: How did farmers in Uganda contract a nightmare illness? A researcher found the answer. What's the best way to help them?

Minutes before a vote could have occurred Wednesday on a pair of controversial clemency bids, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker pulled back his request to pardon two Amirault family members convicted in the 1980s Fells Acre child sex abuse trials.

If you've got a life-threatening medical condition, your first call might not be to an economist. But Alvin Roth used a theory about matching markets to help connect kidney patients and donors.

A Palestinian man serving 18 life sentences for a pair of bus bombings in 2004 speaks to NPR days after his release.