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Fewer young adults are buying homes today compared with a decade ago. The National Housing Conference's Lisa Sturtevant and NPR's Marilyn Geewax explain worries that it could harm the housing market.

Drug overdoses — many from opioid painkillers — cause more deaths in the U.S. than car crashes, shootings or alcohol. But stigma keeps many addicts from an antidote that could quickly save them.

Competition on some exchanges will be diminished next year when three of the nation's largest health insurers drop out. Still, most marketplace consumers won't see any ill effects from the moves.

Dozens of people who grew up around Philadelphia learned decades later they shared the same biological father, a pioneering infertility doctor.

President Obama begins his administration's final phase the way he began several others: recovering from disaster, in this case the loss of the Senate. He's striving to show he won't be a lame duck.

Geneticists have revised the evolutionary tree of birds, revealing some unlikely relationships.

A group of Jewish women is challenging Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban, saying it violates their religious beliefs. Similar lawsuits are advancing in Indiana and Missouri.

Honeybees are major crop pollinators in the U.S., but they're in trouble. So researchers are now investigating how other bees could start picking up some of the slack.

A clinic in Kiev, Ukraine, stirs controversy by making babies with DNA from three different people to help women who are infertile bear children. It's the only clinic known to be doing this right now.

One of the hottest tickets in Washington, D.C., was to a festival that was all about drinking and having fun — but not about booze.