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Although HIV transmission from contaminated blood through unsterile injection is a well-known risk, the CDC said this is the ...

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After 16 seasons, two Olympic gold medals and three WNBA championships, Candace Parker announced her retirement from ...

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North Carolina officials notified the families of almost 2,300 more students that they’ll get public money to cover private ...

Now that Gov. Roy Cooper has checked expanding Medicaid off his gubernatorial to-do list, he has shifted his health care ...

An organic seed company was distressed to learn it had marketed a GMO purple tomato by mistake. The incident raised alarm ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to a patron of the party, musician George Brown of the band Kool & The Gang, about his new book, new record, and the "Celebration" of a long and funky career.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Representative Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, about recent developments in former President Trump's legal battles.