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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Office of State Finance Director Preston Doerflinger is stepping down temporarily to serve as the interim director of the…

The discussion that many black parents have had with their sons about how to behave around white authorities is now part of a national conversation about lingering racial problems.

The House is expected to pass a bill that would eliminate a board that is charged with reining in Medicare spending. But Democrats generally oppose the change, and President Obama has promised to veto the legislation if it ever gets that far.

On today's show, which originally aired late last year, we speak with Keith Recker, the co-author of an interesting and visually striking new book called…

Greyston Garcia followed a suspected burglar for about a block, then stabbed him to death. Based on Florida's "stand your ground law" a judge said he was acting in self defense.

A neighborhood watch volunteer's fatal shooting of a Florida teenager raises questions about the risks involved when a community takes greater control over its own safety.

Wal-Mart has become the latest food retailer to announce that it's making changes after listening to customer concerns about lean finely textured beef, known by detractors as "pink slime."

For more than a year, NPR's Michele Norris has run the Race Card Project, in which she asks people to express their thoughts on race in six words or fewer. Many have written to her with thoughts on the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, which prompted a nationwide movement calling for justice.

When Colorado Rockies catcher Ben Petrick was 22, his doctors told him he had early-onset Parkinson's. He struggled to hide the symptoms, but, frustrated by his shaking and growing lack of mobility, he retired in 2004. Petrick has since focused on coaching, parenting and giving motivational speeches.

Most gynecologists don't ask patients about their sexual orientation or if they're having sexual problems, a new study finds. That makes it hard for women to get appropriate medical care, the researchers say.