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Reporter Rebecca Hersher spent 10 weeks in Greenland this winter trying to understand why the country has the highest known suicide rate. She tells Rachel Martin it's not because of the dark and cold.

The Sheriff of Polk County Fla. recently arrested two 12- and 14-year-old girls after comments online revealed they had a bullied another girl, 12-year-old Rebecca Ann Sedwick.

The shooter at Oregon's Umpqua Community College apparently died of a self-inflicted wound. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Amelia Templeton of Oregon Public Broadcasting about the latest details.

Irom Sharmila hasn't eaten on her own since November 2000. She is protesting against an Indian law that suspends human rights guarantees in conflict-ridden parts of the country.

The murder victim was identified as a professor of engineering. The incident put the UCLA campus on lockdown for hours.

The number of deaths by suicide in the U.S. military surged to a record 349 last year — more than the 295 Americans who died fighting in Afghanistan in 2012. The numbers were first reported by the AP; NPR has confirmed them.

The White House said in a statement that the Taliban was responsible for the attack.

An affiliate of al-Qaida fighting against the Syrian government tweeted the "martyrdom" of the U.S. jihadi earlier this week.

U.S. farmers are more than three times more likely to commit suicide than other workers, a new study has found.University of Iowa researcher Wendy…

Under the federal health law and 2006 regulations, insurers can't deny medical coverage for an individual's injuries because they resulted from a medical condition such as depression, even if it wasn't diagnosed before the injury.