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One Siberian city is tackling the problem of drug-resistant tuberculosis with a health program affectionately named for an earlier Russian innovation. In the modern Sputnik program, teams of nurses travel around the sprawling city of Tomsk, finding and treating the TB patients who are the hardest to reach.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Sacha Pfeiffer transports us to Guantanamo Bay for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

The likely Democratic presidential pack is embracing ambitious economic policies, like Medicare for all and a $15 minimum wage. Those policies could drive the big debates during the 2020 primaries.

Prime Minister Netanyahu says he will annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if he is re-elected. Netanyahu made the surprising announcement ahead of Tuesday's election.

Jimmy Lai, a former media mogul, pro-democracy supporter and outspoken critic of China, was convicted this week on national security charges. He faces life in prison.

After three weeks of testimony, a judge will now rule on whether evidence found in Mangione's backpack can be used in his state trial for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

GOP State Senator Vaneta Becker is on Shively & Shoulders this week to give a review of the recent redistricting vote and discuss other pressing topics for Hoosiers — like the expiration of Affordable Care Act tax credits

Arab and Jewish families have shared the Israeli village of Neve Shalom for decades, despite violence in surrounding areas. But a recent episode of vandalism has shown that not even this oasis is immune from Middle East strife.

A growing number of those seeking help from mortgage counselors are high-income owners of million-dollar homes in wealthy communities like Laguna Beach, Calif., and Westchester County, N.Y. But large home loans can be more difficult to modify than more modest ones.

It's now widely agreed that steering away from the fiscal cliff — the combination of spending cuts and tax increases set to hit at the start of the year — will require some combination of revenue increases and spending cuts. The central sticking point could well be whether President Obama and Congress can agree on the definition of revenue.