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Matty Healy performs with The 1975 at the Leeds Festival in August 2022.

On Being Funny In A Foreign Language, the new album by his band The 1975, Matty Healy makes romantic music for cynical outsiders who insist they're ready to give love a try.

Aerial view of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Some hospitals in Texas and around the U.S. are seeing high profits, even as their bills force patients into debt. Of the nation's 20 most populous counties, none has a higher concentration of medical debt than Tarrant County, home to Fort Worth.

Some hospitals rake in high profits while their patients are loaded with medical debt

Across the U.S., many hospitals have become wealthy, even as their bills force patients to make gut-wrenching sacrifices. This pattern is especially stark for health care systems in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Census shows Detroit population loss continues; Duggan questions count

The city of Detroit continued losing population over the past decade, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.According to the…

Study: Even low levels of air pollution kills people

A new study from Harvard University concludes that there is no "safe" level of air pollution.Researcher Qian Di and colleagues find that particulate…

Climate activists demonstrate at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday. Negotiators from almost 200 nations were making a fresh push to reach agreement on a series of key issues.

In a first, U.N. climate agreement could include the words 'coal' and 'fossil fuels'

The U.N. secretary-general warns the main goal of limiting global warming is "on life support." But Glasgow negotiators are making modest progress in their final hours.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., says he believes the Senate will pass President Biden's spending bill before the end of the year. The House passed the bill on Friday, sending it to the 50-50 Senate.

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin expects the Senate to pass spending bill by the end of 2021

Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, spoke with NPR about how Democrats plan to secure all 50 member votes needed to pass President Biden's $2.2 trillion social spending bill.

Former state Rep. Cord Byrd, seen here in March 2020, was tapped by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to be Florida's new secretary of state, an appointment that has drawn criticism.

Critics worry Florida's new elections chief will make the office more partisan

Cord Byrd, who was tapped by Gov. Ron DeSantis, has refused to say Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and will be in charge of Florida's new election crimes unit.

Police move in against a throng of demonstrators as they try to clear Grant Park during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 28, 1968.

The times, they are not a-changin'

Voices from the 1960s reflect on the 2020s: "We feel that we are reliving the past."

Dr. Jesse Clark is an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, Los Angeles. The COVID pandemic "has spurred people to try to end the HIV epidemic again," he says.

How COVID vaccines have boosted the development of an HIV vaccine

During the pandemic scientists launched a vaccine in record-breaking time. Their successful use of mRNA technology could lead to progress in the decades-long effort for an HIV inoculation.

Cargo containers are stacked on a ship at California's Port of Los Angeles. Consumer goods are arriving from China and elsewhere, but a lot is not getting to its destination.

Businesses Try To Navigate The World's Coronavirus Cargo Pileup

There was a rush of commerce after China reopened. But then demand in the West for many goods dropped, with businesses closing and consumers staying home as the pandemic spread.

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