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Details are scarce, but the companies said they want to help their employees get high-quality health care at a reasonable cost. Will this consortium have better luck than those that have preceded it?

Faced with a shrinking market and workforce, Japanese sake brewers are relying more on exports for growth. So, the government and sake industry are investing in education to help demystify the drink.

Novelists Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman and George S. Schuyler forged their art in what W.E.B. Du Bois famously called the "double-consciousness" of African-Americans.

In comments to a Tulsa radio host in February 2016, then-Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said he feared President Trump would use executive orders unconstitutionally if he were elected.

Nas' 1994 Illmatic is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest hip-hop albums ever — offering a raw and eloquent look at life in NYC's Queensbridge Projects. Now, more than 10 years later, Nas performed the album in an entirely different setting, with the National Symphony Orchestra backing him.

The list of Russians drawn up as part of a sanctions package signed into law last year is not acceptable, according to Senate Democrats who are sharply critical of the Trump administration move.

The South African city of Cape Town is running out of water. On Day Zero — April 16 — the taps will get turned off. As that day approaches, residents are thirsty for answers.

The State of the Union tradition of inviting extraordinary Americans to sit with the first lady began under Ronald Reagan in 1982. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Gerhard Peters, co-director of the American Presidency Project at the University of California — Santa Barbara, who is also a political science professor at Citrus College, about the tradition.

Other towns were similarly inundated, in a state that now has the highest rate of drug overdose deaths. In 2008, one wholesaler provided 5,624 pills for every man, woman and child in Kermit, W.Va.

Early Wednesday morning brought a lunar event that hadn't been seen since 1866. Scientists say data gathered during the event could help them figure out where to land a rover on the moon.