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Nutritional yeast isn't a new health fad — in the 1920s, sales exploded due to the "Yeast for Health" campaign. But bad news about the candida strain affected all yeast, and it's just now rebounding.

The government wants farmers to uproot coca plants, whose leaves are used to make cocaine — with the promise of money, seeds and technology to help raise everything from peppercorns to pigs.

The Trump administration released a major climate assessment on Black Friday. It is the most detailed and blunt assessment yet of the dangers of unchecked global warming.

"I have no plans to voice an opinion" on the controversial 2020 census question about citizenship status, President Trump's nominee Steven Dillingham testified during his Senate confirmation hearing.

Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, who is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, about President Trump's prime-time request to fund a border wall.

Nicole Kidman gives an intense performance as a drunken, pointedly unlikable police officer in Karyn Kusama's new film. Critic John Powers says Destroyer is a flawed, but fascinating, noir thriller.

The state built some key conservative policies into its experimental expansion of Medicaid. Lawmakers, health officials and patient advocates across the U.S. are now keenly watching the results.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Medicaid's former Chief Medical Officer Andrey Ostrovsky about his uncle's fatal drug overdose and his efforts to destigmatize opioid addiction.

With this flu season in the U.S. described as "severe," is high-fiving a no-no? How do we keep those flu germs at bay?

Americans will mash up and scarf down millions of the fruits in one day — Super Bowl Sunday. According to authorities in Mexico, at least one town grows what you might call "conflict-free avocados."