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Along Lake Victoria, women fishmongers often engage in transactional sex with fishermen — a practice that contributes to Kenya's high rate of HIV. One group is challenging that convention.

A typhoon hit the Philippines on Christmas Eve, displacing tens of thousands of people. And the affected areas are still recovering from typhoons before it.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amy Morris-Hall and Pat Fountain of Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Mich., about the birth of the zoo's new black rhino calf. The species is critically endangered.

President Trump's trade agenda began to take hold in 2019. There was a revised NAFTA agreement and an initial deal with China. But deep uncertainty remains over U.S. trade relations with the world.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Lee Hale, host of the podcast, Preach, about his conversations with people who are struggling with their faith.

Preparers of pills made from placental tissue have gained online momentum, claiming to support each new mom in her slog to recovery. A historian traces the trend to a mother's need to be heard.

NPR's top political stories of the year ranged from how incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi would run the House to Robert Mueller's Russia report and the Green New Deal.

The actor who played a husband in an ad for Peloton gave his real-life girlfriend a Peloton bike for Christmas.

A college student in Croatia was swapping hangover stories with friends when he thought — shouldn't stories this good be preserved? And with that, Croatia's Museum of Hangovers was founded.

2019 saw kinder, gentler reality TV in both the U.S. and the U.K. Some say it's a response to nasty politics and nasty old reality TV.