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People were forced to leave their pets behind during Hurricane Katrina, creating an unprecedented animal welfare crisis that has shaped the country's disaster response ever since.

Meteorologists said the storm is the strongest in a decade, dumping more than 2 feet of snow across the Northeast.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Chrystia Freeland, former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and current economic adviser to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, about Ukraine.

Pioneering disease investigator and beloved global health mentor Joel Breman died on April 6 at the age of 87. Breman was part of the team that investigated the first known Ebola outbreak in 1976.

Proposals include regulating kratom, lowering the legal blood-alcohol content for driving to 0.05

A proposed rule could put nearly 80,000 people at risk of eviction, many of them U.S. citizen children. Undocumented immigrants don't get rental aid but can currently live with family members who do.

To put Ebola in context, we tried to find a list of the deadliest contagious diseases. We couldn't. So with the help of scientists and health agencies, we came up with a rundown of the world's worst.

That's what a patient in Russia said a few years ago. In fact, 1.5 million people do die of the airborne infection each year. Here's what the world needs to do to fight this generally curable scourge.

Sometimes a different perspective can help you see a problem with fresh eyes. The problem to be solved in Gainesville, Fla.? A hot spot of poverty, child abuse and neglect.

For 50 years, this little-known archive of civil rights activities has gone pretty much untouched and untapped.