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Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has embarked on a quest to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a transorbital or "ice-pick" lobotomy.

As part of NPR's 50th anniversary, we've asked listeners to submit the lessons they've learned in a half-century of life. Today, we hear from Sonia Bovio of Phoenix.

More than half of the counties in the nation's so-called Diabetes Belt also have high rates of medical debt among their residents, an NPR analysis found.

Starting at midnight Tuesday, the D.C. Metro rail system will shut down for 29 hours while authorities investigate potential dangers related to a cable fire on Monday.

After the president delivered what amounted to a fairly normal address to a joint session of Congress, there were musings that maybe he would stay "presidential."

If the U.S. is preparing for war on the Korean Peninsula, there is little evidence to show for it. The military posture is more about deterrence than anything else.

Aphex Swift is a charming table flip that teeters between the sweet and the sinister: a little Nashville twang with a small dose of digital terror.

A Haitian businessman who lives in Petionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, says he stood in line for 8 hours to get gasoline. Still, says Pierre Brisson, who was interviewed last week on All Things Considered, he considers himself among the lucky ones.

While the Congressional Budget Office has lowered its shortfall projections for the next few years, it warns that deficits will start rising substantially again unless policymakers act.

New business applications are on track to top 5 million, smashing the record set in 2020. Behind some of them are new entrepreneurs who have decided this is the moment to chase their dreams.