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Industry says it costs about $2.7 billion to bring a cancer drug to market. But oncologists who ran the numbers put the average closer to $650 million. Drugs are priced way too high, the doctors say.

More than 6,000 teachers and school staff in Seattle are on strike. Talks between the teachers' union and the school district continued over the weekend but didn't result in an agreement.

The sweeping 84-8 vote came minutes after the Senate handily rejected the House's humanitarian assistance bill, signalling what will likely be a contentious battle to reconcile the competing bills.

The lawsuit comes two weeks after the Trump administration first notified states it was withholding previously approved funds for migrant education, before- and after- school programs and more.

James Marsden and Jack Black play two men whose lives have taken very different paths after high school.

The Washington, D.C., metro system announced an emergency shutdown of its rail system starting at midnight Tuesday. The system will be closed for at least 29 hours for safety checks.

NPR's video team recently caught up with Amador in Brooklyn to hear how her life has changed since finding out she'd won our Tiny Desk Contest. This is her journey.

The film Talk to Me is based on the life of Washington, D.C., radio announcer Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. The smart-talking ex-convict, now regarded as one of the first shock jocks, was also a social activist and commentator.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with chair of the Council of the District of Columbia, Phil Mendelson, about President Trump's emergency declaration and National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C.

The airspace above Reagan National Airport, where a commercial plane collided with an Army helicopter this week, has become increasingly congested with air traffic, including helicopters.