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A hospital's cost calculator said her procedure would be $1,400 for patients without insurance. Instead, the bill was almost $18,000 and, her part was more than $5,000 — the balance of her deductible.

Robert Siegel and Melissa Block review listeners' e-mails from Monday's story on bread, fish and ducks in Linesville, Pa. People gather there to toss bread to the carp in a spillway, and there are so many fish that the ducks literally hop, skip, and jump across the fish to get their own slices of bread.

The dollar has helped make the U.S. the most economically powerful country for most of the last century, but other countries — including rivals like China — have the greenback on their sights.

"It's been a thrill. It's been unbelievable. I've loved it," Williams said on Thursday. The 2007 Naismith Hall of Fame inductee led the team to national championships in 2005, 2009 and 2017.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to NATO Ambassador Julianne Smith about the alliance's annual summit, and how the U.S. plans to reassure allies that Ukraine funding will continue.

Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.

The Jan. 6 report was set to be a major boon for publishers, but a week out sales have been relatively thin compared to other blockbuster government reports.

A new four-disc compilation presents recordings Armstrong made for Verve in 1957. Critic Kevin Whitehead says the album includes a wealth of alternate takes, warm-ups and rehearsal sequences.

The death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has topped 66,000 Palestinians, Gaza's Health Ministry said, a day before the Israeli Prime Minister heads for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Companies are bracing for potential trouble ahead by lowering their advertising budgets, cutting costs and adapting to their customers' changing spending habits.