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Half of all U.S. adults now have a mobile connection to the web through either a smartphone or tablet, significantly more than a year ago, and this has…

Two endorsements made yesterday in state Senate races proved - yet again - that old adage about the game of politics and the strange bedfellows its…

Massachusetts launched a network Tuesday to allow healthcare providers to share patient’s electronic medical records. It was hailed as a milestone in the…

The probe into how patients who were given steroid shots apparently contracted meningitis now includes criminal investigators. At least 15 deaths have been linked to the outbreak.

With eyes on the presidential debate in New York, we decided to turn ours to the swing state of Nevada, where President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney are battling mightily over the state's small but crucial trove of six electoral votes. We caught up with three voters we first met last winter.

Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of what is known in the financial world as "Black Monday." It was one of the worst stock market crashes the world has seen. Host Michel Martin asks Bloomberg Businessweek contributing writer Roben Farzad what's changed since the massive crash, and how another tumble would affect the economy today.

In 2010, Justin Cronin’s The Passage was a phenomenon. The epic spent 3 months on The New York Times bestseller list. It was featured on more than a dozen…

The national debt is a major talking point in this year's presidential election. But political scientist Robert Sahr says it hasn't always been this way. He sits down with host Michel Martin to look at what the presidential candidates plan to do about the debt. The conversation is part of NPR's "Solve This" series, looking at the issues driving the election.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo will be in our region on Saturday as part of the Williamstown Film Festival. The author of Nobody’s Fool and Empire…

Despite poverty and poor sanitation, the world's second-most populous country is eradicating polio, which has afflicted India for millennia. Health officials hope India's successful war plan against polio will serve as inspiration for its archrival, Pakistan, in its own fight against the disease.