NPR's Scott Simon shares the story of two Liberty University students who met on a bus and, while making small talk, discovered they had met many years ago and many miles away.

The nation's top addiction scientist has teamed up with a prominent artist to let people know that substance use disorder is a disease, not a moral failure.

With older adults vaccinated, doctors say a greater share of their COVID-19 patients are in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, as more contagious variants circulate among people who are still unvaccinated.

The S&P 500 surged 11% in President Biden's first 100 days, the best performance since Franklin D. Roosevelt started his first term in 1933.

Pasquotank County Sheriff Tommy Wooten says he wants the bodycam footage from the killing of Andrew Brown Jr., made public.

"I can't wait to just be there and feel it and listen to the music and smell the churros," says Robert Laird, a Disney megafan.

The Romanian documentary “Collective” was nominated for two major Oscar categories, including Best International Film and Best Documentary.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Wade Major and Angie Han review this weekend’s new movie releases.

President Joe Biden spent only a weekend as the “Hamburglar” in the conservative media world. But while the false story lasted, it moved with a damaging speed and breadth, another example of a closed ecosystem of information affecting public opinion.

In our continuing series looking at the latest medical research and news on COVID-19, Larry Mantle speaks with UCI Dr. Shruti Gohil.