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At the height of her addiction to heroin, Tracey Helton Mitchell lived in an alley and sold her body. Now she works as an addiction specialist helping others. Her new memoir is The Big Fix.

The New Zealand band began releasing records on the Flying Nun label in the 1980s. Four decades later, they are still at it. Rock historian Ed Ward tells story of The Chills.

The Biden administration is moving to quell concern over the new omicron variant. NPR's A Martinez talks to Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, about what we know now.

Monk has spent four decades challenging audiences and winning awards with her unusual fusion of song, theater, dance and film. Lately, she's begun to consider how her work will last after she's gone.

In the Barbershop, Olivia Nuzzi of Daily Beast, Alexis Nedd of Buzzfeed and NPR's Ammad Omar discuss Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's comments and a new tool to "de-Trumpify" Facebook friends.

We look at Republican Congressman Jeff Hurd's campaign in Colorado, where he is using his breaks with President Trump as an asset in his bid for reelection.

Voters in Alabama headed to the polls Tuesday to take part in the first election since federal courts ruled the state's map violated the Voting Rights Act.

Benjamin Franklin first called for the government to tinker with clock hours in the 1780s. But it wasn't until World War I that the U.S. adopted daylight-saving time as a way to squeeze more out of the day. David Prerau explores the curious history of DST.

President Trump has praised the preaching of Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote that "a confident and optimistic thought pattern can modify or overcome the fact altogether."

In his book Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution, Rainn Wilson, three-time Emmy nominee for his role in The Office, says the U.S. needs an awakening.