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A new study shows access to birth control has increased following the FDA's approval of an over-the-counter birth control pill. In the two years since the pill went on the market, there's a 31.8% percent increase in people who chose this option after having used no contraception at all.

Growing up with immigrant parents, first in Canada and then in the U.S., Yang was "obsessed" with pop culture and Saturday Night Live. Now he's up for an Emmy for his performances on the venerated sketch series.

NPR looks at grocery inflation and politics in Pittsburgh, a focus of both major presidential campaigns in their quest to woo voters in must-win Pennsylvania.

On today’s show, WHQR's Ben Schachtman and Nikolai Mather are unpacking the forum we put on earlier this month with WECT and Port City Daily, featuring candidates running for the North Carolina House and Senate. We'll dig into what the candidates had to say, with context, analysis, and some fact-checking.

An early intelligence report found U.S. strikes on Iran sites may only have set its nuclear program back "a few months." Trump said it was inconclusive, but believes damage was more severe.

To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another.

This year, Chicago breaks ground on a pipeline that will bring water from the Great Lakes to some suburbs whose groundwater is running dry.

There are questions about what preparations and warnings were in place in the rural central Texas area devastated by deadly flash flooding this weekend.

From this week's Sunday Edition: WHQR News Director Benjamin Schachtman does a little housekeeping, with some notes on the Trump Administration's attack on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the growing pains of public-private partnerships, and the recent efforts to cut local budgets around the Cape Fear region.

President Trump abruptly announced a 90-day pause on the steep tariffs that went into effect Wednesday -- except for China.