The federal government now designates nearly 80 percent of the rural U.S. as ‘medically underserved.’

On Facebook, he writes America’s Last Line of Defense. She likes and shares.

As homelessness overwhelms downtown Phoenix, a small business wonders how long it can hang on.

As a record number of people die on America’s streets, Abdul Curry fights to stay alive.

In Ohio community, immigrant families face fear and separation with ICE raids on the rise

“It’s a powerless feeling, watching someone die”: An anesthesiologist on the frontline of coronavirus outbreak

An ER nurse in an overwhelmed hospital and the decision she had to make

They bought $30 worth of fentanyl before making it into rehab. One overdosed. The other was charged in his death.

Anthony Almojera, on being a New York City paramedic and the injustices of covid-19.

At the ever-growing bottom of the American economy, a low-wage worker becomes a minimum-wage activist

As American cities struggle to recover from the pandemic, Denver's problems spill over onto its buses.

As emergencies rise across rural America, a hospital fights for its life

In America’s overwhelmed downtowns, private security guards like Michael Bock have become the solution of last resort.

A 75-year-old woman on coronavirus, being alone, and being thought of as expendable

A son’s testimony on losing his mother to coronavirus.

“From normal life to this hell in a week”: A man on losing his partner to coronavirus.

One landowner in the project’s path agonizes over fighting the government to save his last 77 acres.

A California school official searches his district for the hundreds left behind by covid-19.

Susan Stevens’s fight against drugs has reached the White House, but she still wrestles with why her daughter died.

Scot Peterson was one of the most decorated deputies in Parkland, Fla. — until a gunman opened fire at school and he stayed outside.

Amid a historic U.S. teacher shortage, a ‘Most Outstanding Teacher’ from the Philippines tries to help save a struggling school in rural Arizona.

What it’s like to live with a bomb stronger than 20 Hiroshimas in a time of rising worldwide tensions.

A grocery store owner on his beloved New Orleans community amid coronavirus

For many people in medical debt, a trip to the emergency room leads to the courtroom.

If anything defines the growing health gap between rural and urban America, it’s the rise of emergency telemedicine in the poorest, sickest, and most remote parts of the country, where the choice is...

As emergencies rise across rural America, a hospital fights for its life

Francene Bailey, on passing the coronavirus to her mother, who later died.

Susan Stevens’s fight against drugs has reached the White House, but she still wrestles with why her daughter died.

Madina Salaty’s U.S. citizenship wasn’t enough to keep her immigrant husband from being forced to leave.

Anthony Almojera, on being a New York City paramedic and the injustices of covid-19.

A powerful and cathartic portrait of a country grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic—from feeling afraid and overwhelmed to extraordinary resilient—told through voices of people from...

The health center in hard-hit Washington state desperately seeks supplies essential to coping with the inevitable.

If anything defines the growing health gap between rural and urban America, it’s the rise of emergency telemedicine in the poorest, sickest, and most remote parts of the country, where the choice is...

What life becomes when Covid-19 won't go away

Like many cities across the U.S., the homeless population in Portland has increased due to the coronavirus, leading the overwhelmed city to start issuing ultimatums to people to clear out.

For a Buffalo lawyer, the investigation of one mass shooting leads him back to another.

A psychiatric nurse who deals with the homeless, the sickest and the most vulnerable people in post-pandemic Seattle reckons with the high cost of compassion.

Amid a historic U.S. teacher shortage, a ‘Most Outstanding Teacher’ from the Philippines tries to help save a struggling school in rural Arizona.

Amber Elliott, county health director, on the high cost of doing her job

The Capitol attacks ruptured their mutual trust. In the weeks before Brian Mock’s sentencing, could he mend the divide with his son A.J.?

The government had denied Ansly Damus parole because it considered him a flight risk with no meaningful connections in Ohio. When Melody Hart and Gary Benjamin heard about his case, they were stirred...

A Georgia coroner on reopening the state amid mounting deaths

A patient's experience in a coronavirus vaccine trial.

Lennie McCloskey has removed more than 20,000 tenants from their homes with eviction orders over the past 20 years. In the post-pandemic return to normal, his work has become more relentless and...

A controversial warrant allows police to temporarily confiscate guns from law-abiding — but at-risk — owners. It represents the latest piecemeal attempt to prevent gun violence in the U.S.

Demaryius Thomas is within reach of realizing all his NFL dreams. But to gain what he wants most -- his family reunited -- he's learning to let go of what tore them apart.

Stanley Plotkin, legendary vaccinologist, on the historic development and chaotic distribution of covid-19 vaccines

A Georgia coroner on reopening the state amid mounting deaths

Eight years ago, Brenda Valenzuela survived a mass shooting. Now she must send her own children to school.

Nora Sandigo is guardian to hundreds of U.S. citizens born to illegal immigrants who are subject to deportation.

When they heard the first pops in the UCC building, they had little doubt about what was occurring.

The months seem a bit longer for a D.C. woman and her family after recent cuts to the food stamps they rely on.

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Selfish? Greedy? The Knicks' star knows his rep. But he has a plan to change all that: Make more money.