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Drugmakers make big profits in the U.S. But many pay taxes far below the 21% corporate tax rate. Pfizer's effective tax rate is so low it's getting a big refund despite booking $59 billion in revenue.

Dallas police used a bomb-disposal robot to deliver explosives to a suspected gunman, killing him. Experts say robots aren't new to law enforcement but this use was unprecedented.

Penny Berg and her son, Mark Berg, tell NPR's Scott Simon about the current economic difficulties facing American dairy farmers.

NPR has tracked the prices of dozens of items at the same superstore in Georgia, including eggs, T-shirts, snacks and paper towels. Here's what got cheaper over the past year, and more expensive.

In 2017, a study reported one in three people in one rural Alabama county had been exposed to hookworm. Catherine Coleman Flowers says the study reveals big gaps in sanitation in rural America.

Texas lawmakers are considering bills to bail out companies and institutions unable to pay back energy suppliers that provided electricity and gas at the height of the crisis. But the measures would lock utility ratepayers into slowly paying off that debt over decades — with interest.

A federal judge has found the U.S. Air Force 60% responsible for the Sutherland Springs attack for failing to send the shooter's felony conviction to the FBI background check database.

Cities around the country have been working to diversify their "energy mix" – the combination of natural resources and technologies used to fuel power…

Web and mobile outlets are now the easiest avenues for crossing off items on holiday shopping lists. Online retailers are a convenient way to beat the…

As of 2014, approximately 57,800 youth ages 15 to 17 were married in the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center. Forced marriages for minors are more…