Our Real Talk with a Doc columnist explains how to push back if your doctor's obsessed with weight loss. And what other health metrics matter more instead.

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With a little help from his Sinners co-star Miles Caton, the near-nonagenarian legend gives the Tiny Desk a history lesson in the blues.

Memorial services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. to honor his long civil rights legacy begin in Chicago. Events will also ...

After the U.S. withdrew from the World Health Organization, it wasn't clear they would participate in this WHO-led meeting to ...

The average home loan rate has dropped below 6% for the first time since 2022. Will that help thaw the frozen housing market?

The Energy Department made the rules public a month after NPR reported about their existence. The rules slash requirements ...

After the Supreme Court declared the emergency tariffs illegal, the refund process will be messy and will go to businesses ...

This week, the state of the union was stated (but not uniting) at length. If you know your State of the Union history (or read NPR's coverage …), you'll get at least one question right!

As climate change accelerates, local experts say the date Wisconsin's Lake Mendota freezes over is getting later, making safe conditions for activities that rely on snow and ice harder to predict.

The U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone, members of Congress said Thursday, and the Federal Aviation Administration responded by closing more airspace near ...

The Defense Department has been feuding with Anthropic over military uses of its artificial intelligence tools. At stake are hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts and access to some of the most ...