Health insurance costs for those on ACA plans are skyrocketing in 2026, unless Congress steps in. The increases are breaking family's budget and forcing them to make tough choices. Clockwise from left: Chris O'Donnell, Robert Bixon and his wife, Genna Boatright, Ezra McKay and Kristine Weidner.
TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. We've all had them - those unsettling dreams that jolt us out of sleep. Maybe you're back in high school, unprepared for a final exam or searching desperately for something that you've lost.
MUNICH — "It was gnarly. Dangerous. Only the most experienced could surf it," says Jakob Netzer of what local surfers
Noah Zaitar allegedly ran a drug empire, producing and exporting narcotics, including the synthetic stimulant captagon. The Lebanese army has detained the country’s most infamous drug lord, two years after he was sanctioned by the United States over suspected links to narcotics rings in Syria.
BILLINGS, Mont. — President Trump's administration moved Wednesday to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live, reviving a suite of changes to Endangered Species Act regulations from the Republican's first term that
House lawmakers force a vote on bill to restore federal workers' bargaining rights House lawmakers have collected enough signatures to force a vote on a bill that would nullify President Trump's executive order terminating collective bargaining rights for most federal workers.
BOGOTA, Colombia — A string of surprising qualifiers has reshaped the story of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with several small nations punching above their weight to reach soccer’s biggest stage.
TOKYO — Firefighters and army helicopters battled a fire Wednesday that burned through a neighborhood of old wooden houses in a fishing town in southwestern Japan, killing one person, injuring another and forcing more than
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Today, we're going to talk about FBI director Kash Patel with Marc Fisher, who profiles Patel on the current issue of The New Yorker. It's titled "Kash Patel's Acts Of Service." It's subtitled, "The F.B.I.
"We all know the trope of the starving artist," said researcher Gwendolyn Rugg, "But there's actually surprisingly little reliable data out there to back this up." Rugg, a senior
Happy World Toilet Day — officially observed Nov. 19 by the United Nations to highlight a global crisis: about 3.4 billion people lack “safely managed sanitation,” and more than 300 million still practice open defecation.
MAGA, Nigeria — A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory
