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The man considered the greatest boxer of all time inspired millions by standing up for his principles during the 1960s, and by always entertaining — in the boxing ring and in front of a microphone.

Correspondent Jason Beaubien talks about his week at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in South Sudan.

State and local disaster relief programs are leaving communities impacted by Superstorm Sandy confused by the dizzying array of directives on how to rebuild.

A woman has gone missing in the mountains of southwest China. Her American sister, an NPR listener, recruits Shanghai Correspondent Frank Langfitt to help find her as part of his free taxi series, "Streets of Shanghai."

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz allied to gang up on Donald Trump as he was pressed on immigration and foreign policy. John Kasich tried to rise above the fray in the nastiest GOP debate yet.

More voters identify as independent than Republican or Democrat. And they're changing the political system around the country.

In engineering the cell, researchers paired away nearly all genes that weren't essential to life. It might eventually serve as a basic framework for different sorts of cellular factories, they say.

The new documentary Fastball explores the classic showdown between pitcher and batter. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with director Jonathan Hock about his film, and with David Price, a left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.

Every state except Missouri has a database that doctors can check to see if a person filling a prescription for an opioid is trying to get it from other pharmacies, too.

The two Democratic rivals struck a cordial tone on how to fix the embattled Michigan city's water crisis, but they had sharp differences on trade, the auto bailout and gun control.