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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Eric Lander, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, on the Biden administration's plan to cut the cancer death rate by 50% in 25 years.

Some Native Americans wants the bells that mark El Camino Real in California removed. They say the highway markers symbolize the painful history of the missions. Others say removal erases history.

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby announced Wednesday that thousands of U.S. troops will be sent to Eastern Europe. The move comes during a major military buildup of Russian forces near Ukraine.

On Wednesday, Gov. JB Pritzker delivered his fourth proposed budget, this one for fiscal year 2023 which will begin July 1, and outlined spending plans for an anticipated $1.7 billion surplus for the fiscal year that will end June 30.

Rep. Grace Meng says she introduced the measure to send the message to Asian Americans that they are a valued part of American society. If the bill passes, it would become the 12th federal holiday.

More than a dozen historically Black colleges received bomb threats on Tuesday, the first day of Black History Month, following a number of bomb threats at HBCUs on Monday. Several went on lockdown.

The man who first created the databases forty years ago, Ernie Ludy, is raising concerns about patient privacy.

They are accused of selling fentanyl-laced heroin to Williams, the five-time Emmy nominated actor, best known for his role as a gay robber of drug dealers in the TV series The Wire.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Committee of Armed Services, about the Russia-Ukraine standoff.

NASA says the International Space Station will stop operating at the end of 2030. After that, the space agency plans to crash the football field-sized craft into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean.