The U.S. poured billions of dollars into rebuilding Afghanistan for two decades. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with John Sopko, the former Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

The final report this week from the special inspector general for Afghanistan identified $26 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse in U.S. reconstruction spending in Afghanistan since 2009.

You may be stressed by many hard choices about breast reconstruction after a mastectomy. Learning you have breast cancer can be overwhelming. You may have already had a mastectomy, a surgery to remove ...

Cancer can affect any part of the body, including the reproductive system. When surgeons have to remove part or all of the vagina due to cancer, reconstruction surgery offers a way to maintain vaginal ...

Breast reconstruction surgery is a procedure/s to rebuild your breasts after they've been removed (usually from cancer). Because of advances in breast reconstruction surgery, many women undergoing ...

Following breast cancer treatment, you can choose from various breast reconstruction options, including implants and tissue flap procedures using tissue from other parts of the body. Breast ...

The post-Civil War Reconstruction era marked a period of massive social, political, economic, and cultural advancements for Black Americans. Between 1865 and 1877, formerly enslaved people gained ...

Call it the original "Great Escape." On May 13, 1862, just over a year into the Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls, who labored on a Confederate steamer in South Carolina's Charleston ...

The combination of covid-19 and the uprisings following the police killing of George Floyd have changed the way we see our connections to one another, creating a transformative moment in the American ...