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This is my last reasonable chance to talk about college basketball before it officially goes into the cooler of the American sporting offseason. Unlike the NFL or even college football, NCAA basketball is not a year-round sport, except to the obsessed or those working in the profession. For everyone else, now’s the time when we move on to the NBA playoffs or the NFL draft or baseball’s opening.

Hospitals and nursing homes rely on the immigrant workforce to fill many key roles, research finds. Trump's crackdown on immigration threatens to exacerbate shortages.

A new plan to safeguard the Albany County Town of Bethlehem's water supply has been approved.

A decade ago, a new ant showed up in NYC. Now, it's everywhere in the city and is spreading at a rate of about a mile a year. Scientists are trying to understand why this ant has been so successful.

Krystal Anderson died of sepsis a few days after giving birth to a stillborn baby. It was her second bout of maternal sepsis. Even though she was in the care of specialists, she died.

Health experts say driving up vaccination rates in affected areas is the most effective defense against this disease

Federal health agencies have to slash their spending on contracts by more than a third, on top of the 10,000-person staffing cuts which started this week.

To explore what lessons can be drawn from past negotiations with North Korea, NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Robert Gallucci, the top U.S. negotiator on North Korea during the Clinton administration.

Hayden, who became the first woman and the first African American to serve as the Librarian of Congress when she was appointed in 2016, was abruptly fired via email late Thursday.

After an accounting error exposed an additional budget shortfall, Burlington’s mayor is proposing limiting raises for her office and department heads.