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Federal law keeps insurers from using genetic test results when pricing and issuing health insurance. But the tests might keep you from being able to get life insurance or a long-term-care policy.

For decades, Oran Z collected everything he could about black America, from racist tchotchkes to wax figures of Malcolm X, displaying them in his own museum. Now, his life's work is in jeopardy.

A woman known as "kristall.night," accused of helping organize white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Va., last summer, has lost a bid to keep her true identity secret from the courts.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Sid Edwards and Jordan Taylor about the supermarket "miracle" when Taylor reached out to Edward's autistic son, and how their lives have been affected since a video of the interaction went viral.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew about whether the overuse of sanctions could lose effectiveness.

It started when a bus killed two students in the capital city of Dhaka. Thousands of student prs literally changed the flow of traffic — to the dismay of the government.

A bus in Dhaka, Bangladesh, ran over and killed two students, triggering a massive protest. Students are demanding justice in a country where traffic laws are poorly enforced.

It's been 20 years since U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were hit by blasts that killed more than 200 people. They were the first major attacks on U.S. targets by al-Qaida.

Oran Z has been collecting relics of Black Americana for most of his life. The items he's amassed used to be in a museum he ran in Los Angeles, but now they're all housed on his property.

Officials confirmed reports of the systematic exclusion of female candidates from the prestigious university are true. "We betrayed the public trust," the school's managing director told reporters.