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The maternal mortality rate in Texas doubled from 2010 to 2014. Dr. Lisa Hollier of Texas' Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force tells NPR's Scott Simon it's a complex problem.

The sentencing of former doctor Larry Nassar has increasingly put pressure on the U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Juliet Macur of The New York Times about the fallout.

The president's attack follows publication of a best-selling book that questions his fitness for office.

And half the world's population doesn't even have access to essential health services, according to a report from the World Bank and the World Health Organization.

Talese had told The Washington Post he wouldn't promote his new nonfiction book, The Voyeur's Motel, after the paper found flaws in its story. But now he says the book will go ahead as planned.

Real people hurt by fake news can sue under defamation law. But University of Denver law professor Derigan Silver notes that winning monetary damages doesn't undo the damage to a person's reputation.

In an odd sequence of events, the federal ethics watchdog praised Trump in a series of snarky tweets for allegedly deciding to divest his businesses — something he hasn't specifically promised.

There's a lot of buzz about how big data and now blockchain will "solve climate change." Scientists are concerned that the hype plays into a dangerous idea that there's a technological magic bullet.

Years after an investigation in Boston highlighted the dimensions of the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic priesthood, the financial and reputational cost to the Catholic church continues to grow.

The U.S. secretary of state is in Ankara, where the Turkish government alleges journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi agents, a charge Riyadh denies.