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Baltimore's Shock Trauma Center is the busiest in the country – this is where the Air Force sends medical professionals to train before deploying. In…

Michael Hankin shares why Baltimore would be a top choice for Amazon's second headquarters.About MikeMichael Hankin is a partner of Brown Advisory…

In 1989, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola was "under a state of emergency." In early 1990, Warden John P. Whitely was hired. During his five-year tenure, Whitely helped turn the prison around, garnering national and international attention. He also gained the affection of inmates, who recently hosted a farewell dinner in honor of the departing warden. NPR's Terry Gross speaks with special correspondent Wilbert Rideau, editor-in-chief of the award-winning prison magazine The Angolite and an inmate at the penitentiary.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court threw out an opioid ruling against Johnson & Johnson, raising questions about the legal strategy used to hold the drug industry accountable for the opioid crisis.

The novelist and essayist was found dead in his home Sept. 12, reportedly a suicide. Fresh Air remembers him with an interview first aired in 1997, the year he won the MacArthur Foundation's "genius" grant.

The book was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and won Britain's Baille-Gifford Prize. The book is out in paperback next month.

At least 30 are injured after a five-alarm fire broke out at an assisted living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Also: The bench in Amsterdam where the main characters sit in the film adaptation of John Green's The Fault in Our Starsis missing; a new poem by Joel Brouwer.

Data from Johns Hopkins University, which tracks the global spread of the disease, shows more than 1,500 people have died of the disease in the U.S. as of Friday evening.

Chappelle's Show co-creator Brennan discusses his special,3 Mics.Critic John Powers reviews Emil Ferris' graphic novel debut. Glenn Frankel links the film High Noontothe Hollywood blacklist era.

It was supposed to be a straightforward training exercise. Instead, Sgt. John Skipper cut the parachute strings to three Humvees and they were demolished as they hit the ground.

The White House, which was not informed of the invitation, called it a departure from diplomatic protocol. House Speaker John Boehner said, "Congress can make this decision on its own."

Sen. John Walsh lifted at least a quarter of his United States Army War College master's thesis, according to a report in The New York Times. Walsh was appointed to the Senate in February.

Secretary of State John Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz defended the deal before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

In 2010, sportswriter Clay Travis said in a tweet, "There is a 100% chance that DeMarcus Cousins is arrested for something in the next five years."

John Bohannon, the man behind a stunt that bamboozled many news organizations into publishing junk science on dieting, talks to NPR's Robert Siegel about why he carried out the scheme.

Johns Hopkins University's tracking site shows almost 2.7 million confirmed cases in the U.S. as of Wednesday. Total U.S. deaths from COVID-19 are more than double those of Brazil, which ranks second.

Director John Thompson will leave the Census Bureau next month. He testified to a House panel last week that the 2020 Census was on track, but critics warn projected funding could prove inadequate.

"The investigation found that the cadets did not intend to be offensive," Lt. Gen. John Rosa, president of the military college in South Carolina, said.

"Simplistic or poorly constructed tests," says John King, "just take away from critical learning time."