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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Michigan State University interim President John Engler about the $500 million settlement for victims of university athletic doctor and convicted sex abuser Larry Nassar.

The results put the U.S. further away from a viable replacement rate — the standard for a generation being able to replicate its numbers.

A new case of the often deadly virus was confirmed in a densely populated regional capital city. Now health workers are rushing to stem its spread.

New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos says that hundreds of non-partisan civil servants, considered not loyal enough to the administration, have been marginalized or pushed out of government entirely.

Trichlorofluoromethane, or CFC-11, hurts the ozone layer and was phased out of production by 2010. Supposedly. But a NOAA study says CFC-11 emissions began to rise after 2012.

Quim Torra, a Catalan separatist, is the new head of the restive region in Spain. For months, Catalonia and Madrid have faced off over Catalonia's bid for independence.

The White House budget office is reviewing a proposal, drafted by the Department of Health and Human Services, similar to a discontinued Reagan-era policy that critics describe as the "gag rule."

Earlier this week, 26-year-old Joshua Holt, who has been jailed in the South American country since 2016, uploaded a video to Facebook expressing fear that fellow inmates were trying to kill him.

The pre-dawn raid on a condominium belonging to former Prime Minister Najib Razak, who was defeated in last week's elections, comes in connection with a long-running corruption scandal.

Also: The U.S. is worried about an American jailed in Venezuela; the W.H.O. considers whether ebola is an international emergency; and a decades old message in a bottle is found in Mississippi.