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NPR's Scott Horsley speaks with Melissa Block about Obama's plan to defer deportation for some immigrants, which he announced in a speech Thursday night.

People in the LGBT community often have a hard time getting appropriate health care. But the problems aren't unique to them. Doesn't everyone want to have a doctor call them by their preferred name?

A fungus consumes a worm and sprouts out of its head. The resulting ... thing ... is deemed an aphrodisiac and sells for more than gold. How do you keep people from killing each other to harvest it?

Albert Woodfox has spent about 40 years in solitary for the 1972 murder of a prison guard. A federal appeals court's unanimous decision could set him free, if the state decides not to challenge it.

The actions announced Thursday are complicated and will lead to many changes in immigration policy. Here we try to explain it plainly.

Washington state is home to more glaciers than any other state in the lower 48. And they're receding faster than ever before.

The Bureau of Land Management, environmentalists, and the energy industry have reached an agreement on a proposal to drill for oil and gas on the Roan...

President Obama announced an executive action on immigration this week. For an in-depth look at the issue, author Gustavo Arellano recommends two nonfiction collections about Mexican immigrants.

It's a misconception that undocumented immigrants don't pay taxes. Reporter Sarah Reynolds breaks down how non-citizens pay taxes, and how it affects their legal standing.

The peace talks to end the Colombian conflict don't get a lot of U.S. coverage. Photojournalist Stephen Ferry talks about a conflict that runs deeper than the war on drugs.