Arwa Gunja

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-WI, will finish this year's term in office and then retire from Congress.

At least 40 people are reported to have perished at the hands of a chemical weapons attack in Syria's Douma, part of the eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus.

Last year, 77 people were killed in Oakland, California. Behind every homicide statistic is a person — and a story. So the radio program Snap Judgement profiled each victim.

After being blocked by President Trump, Democrats released their version of the Nunes memo over the weekend. 

When it comes to mass shootings, one expert says that a sole focus on mental health is misguided.

Dacher Keltner, host of PRI's "The Science of Happiness," talks about how the "Three Good Things" practice can foster a deeper appreciation of life's everyday joys.

On Saturday, a false missile alert caused panic in Hawaii. The ease with which it was sent out hints at some of the flaws in America's current nuclear preparedness systems. 

25 years ago, film scholar B. Ruby Rich coined the term “New Queer Cinema.” Here, she discusses how the movement has changed in the decades since. 

The Senate holds a confirmation hearing today for Michael Dourson, the nominee to head the EPA’s chemical regulatory program. Dourson has fought against restrictions on toxic chemicals.

An Obama-era policy adviser is launching a new podcast that seeks to examine this existential question: "What makes an American 'American enough'?"

After her son was shot and killed by the San Francisco Police Department, Gwen Woods had to grieve in the public eye. Now, she tells her story.

Five years after the Oak Creek massacre, a son remembers his father, who died that day, and how that put him on a path of "forgiveness with vengeance."

For non-white children adopted by Caucasian families, race can play a role in shaping identity.

Yemen faces an alarming cholera outbreak in the midst of an ongoing civil war.

"The truth is, the gay community isn't interested in embracing overweight people because we're a blemish on the image of perfection," says writer Louis Peitzman.

The number of people in the United States who are "food insecure" has risen sharply in the past few decades, with 48 million Americans going hungry as of 2012.

"In the absence of doing something about the food marketing, particularly directed at children, it's going to be hard to do much about the obesity epidemic."

In 1994, Dr. Kelly Brownell proposed the radical idea of taxing unhealthy foods. More than 20 years later, soda taxes have taken hold in cities around the country. Are they working?