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When employees move on, it's often mentioned as the main reason for their departure. Lack of autonomy at work elevates stress hormones and can have other negative health effects, studies show.

As dozens of CEOs called on the president to preserve DACA, and on Congress to pass an immigration bill to help immigrant youth, the president of Microsoft had some fighting words for the White House.

For the first time in 36 years, four American women — Madison Keys, Venus Williams, CoCo Vandeweghe and Sloane Stephens — are in the U.S. Open Semifinals. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to former pro tennis player and ESPN commentator Pamela Shriver about the significance of this open.

Brazil's political and economic meltdown creates challenges for doctors trying to get a handle on the outbreak.

If not for flawed classification of deaths, medical mistakes would be the third leading cause of U.S. deaths, Johns Hopkins researchers say. They're calling on the CDC to track deaths from errors.

Kazuo Ishiguro was 5 when his family moved from Japan to Britain; he has said that as a kid, he used TV Westerns — like Bonanza and Wagon Train -- to help him learn English.

President Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs is facing allegations of misbehavior in the workplace.

A new study confirms what some researchers have been saying for decades — standardized tests have little or no value in predicting students' success in college. So why do institutions use them?

Intraparty rivalries could cost Democrats seats in November. NPR's Michel Martin asks Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, when party leaders should intervene.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, about why he opposes the confirmation of CIA Director Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State — and whether there are enough votes to block the nomination.