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Many of the cost factors that people think are the most important pale in comparison to those that actually are. Mismanagement and fraud top the list. New technologies and treatments are low. Most people think beneficiaries pay their own way or have prepaid for care, neither of which is the the case.

An NPR reporter takes an early mountain trip up one of New York's Adirondack mountains. (This piece originally aired July 6, 2022, on All Things Considered.)

China on Thursday begins its biggest political meetings of the year, signaling its confidence that it has the coronavirus under control. At the top of the agenda: how to revive the flagging economy.

Senate Republicans unveil a bill to reform the police. The Supreme Court protects DACA for a little while longer.

Our guest is modern saxophonist Charles Lloyd, who also built a sound in Los Angeles, riding a wave of free jazz and beyond. He played alongside everyone from Ornette Coleman to the Jefferson Airplane. His fluid music carried him out of the city to the California Coast, where he hung with the Beach Boys and found internal peace. But before all that, Charles Lloyd discovered his love for the saxophone through the blues in his hometown of Memphis.

School buildings in the Crescent City will become monuments to our differences instead of the beacons of learning they are supposed to be if New…

Maxwell spoke with top DOJ officials over the course of two days in late July. Asked about President Trump, she said she had never witnessed him "in any inappropriate setting in any way."

A lesson from the Australian classic rockers explains why the pop star's newest album, which hasn't generated glowing reviews or massive radio hits, still had an explosive opening sales week.

Younger voters have been a crucial voting bloc for Democrats, but President Biden is facing real challenges — and it's part of why his race with former President Donald Trump is so tight.

Despite the pandemic recession, holiday sales are expected to set a new record, topping $755 billion.