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Pregnant women at Sierra Leone's Gondama Referral Center. Sierra Leone has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world. A new study looks at an intervention to prevent death from postpartum hemorrhage.

A plastic sheet with a pouch could be a 'game changer' for maternal mortality

A new study assesses a low-cost intervention aimed at reducing deaths from bleeding during childbirth. It's remarkably simple — and, according to a new study, quite effective.

How 20 child-free adults respond to the question, 'Why don't you want to have kids?'

If you're child-free by choice, you may get comments from people wanting to know more about your decision. Life Kit asked our audience for their go-to responses about being child-free.

Savannah McConneaughey, right, poses with her father Reggie and mother Kenya.

VanVan, 4, raps about her ABCs and 123s

Meet VanVan, the four-year-old rapper who is giving Nicki Minaj and Doja Cat a run for their money. She's getting millions of views on TikTok and Instagram.

A poster titled "China Payments to Bidens" is visible as House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., arrives for a news conference on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

House Republicans ramp up claims Biden family received money from foreign contacts

House Oversight Chairman James Comer said Republicans have bank records that show the Biden family has benefited financially from foreign contacts. The White House and Hunter Biden slammed the claims.

Oregon Poison Center Fields More Calls On COVID 'Remedies'

Ivermectin is only one of them

Waiting For The Autumn Breeze With Master Gardener Lynn Kunstman

End of Gardening Season

Remembering The Big Fires, One Year Later

1st Anniversary of Almeda Drive and Obenchain Fires

A former Virginia Department of Corrections employee donated hundreds of execution documents, including these photographs, to the Library of Virginia more than a decade ago. NPR is now exclusively publishing a selection of the documents.

Virginia hid execution files from the public. Here's what they don't want you to see

In January, the Virginia Department of Corrections restricted public access to execution records. NPR is now publishing a selection of those secret files.

Andrii Hutsuliak (L) and Jeffrey Kenny (R) pose for a portrait in Ukraine's Central Kyiv Railway Station on April 28.

This duo rehearsed between air raid alarms. Now they're repping Ukraine at Eurovision

Dozens of countries will compete in the Eurovision grand final on Saturday. Electronic duo Tvorchi is representing Ukraine, which won last year. They spoke to NPR about their journey to Liverpool.

The Jim Bridger coal plant in Point of Rocks, Wyo., powers more than a million homes across six Western states. Under proposed federal rules many coal plants would have to dramatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions in coming years.

An EPA proposal to (almost) eliminate climate pollution from power plants

Coal and natural gas-fired power plants would have to dramatically reduce the climate-warming greenhouse gasses they emit under proposed federal rules.

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