When's the last time you asked yourself: What do I love to do? What makes me feel alive? Earlier this year, as Ailsa Chang planned her 50th birthday party, I welcomed her to this side of life. Ailsa ...

As Jayeleauna Lewis listened to an automated voice system describe the unauthorized charges on her food assistance card, a pit formed in her stomach. She pictured her 3-year-old daughter and their ...

Measles is the most contagious disease known. It can rip through a population without immunity like wildfire. Just look at what's happening in Pennsylvania, says Patsy Stinchfield, executive director ...

For hours, bullets tore through the home, hitting neighboring houses and cars. Inside, a man wanted by police for allegedly killing his ex-girlfriend was holed up with his new girlfriend. As the SWAT ...

A decade after telling Facebook's origin story in The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin returns to familiar terrain by sounding the alarm on some of the collateral damage caused in more recent years by a ...

Fall has only just begun, but it's already time to start thinking about the quintessential winter bug: the flu. The annual flu season usually starts in October or November. But this year, it looks ...

A version of this essay first appeared in the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get the news you need to start your day — plus a little fun — every weekday and Sunday. Four weeks from now, the ...

LOS ANGELES — A news helicopter crashed in a Los Angeles neighborhood on Tuesday and burst into flames, killing at least three people while reporters were covering the collision of an SUV and a city ...

On a weekday morning inside 26 Federal Plaza, you’ll see hundreds of people waiting in lines outside the small immigration courtrooms housed on the 12th and 14th floors. These hallways and courtrooms ...

On the morning of August 11 of this year, John Hockenberry signed off for the last time as host of WNYC’s The Takeaway, the show he helped to launch almost a decade earlier. That afternoon, dozens of ...

This article is a collaboration between WNYC, ProPublica and The New Yorker. In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump’s two eldest children, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr., found themselves in a ...

Tammy has lived on the 18 th floor of the same public housing building her whole life. She didn't have air conditioning — until she could afford to buy her own unit when she was well into her 30s. “A ...