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The Make America Healthy Again commission is proposing more than 100 moves to address the root causes of childhood chronic disease. Critics say other Trump administration moves contradict the goals.

To stop COVID-19, retired doctors are signing up to take clinical shifts. Specialists, including dentists, could move to front line care. And med students are fielding calls in overwhelmed clinics.

Many people are struggling with insomnia like never before. Specialists explain why these times put an extra strain on our ability to get needed rest — and what to do about it.

At the start of the 20th century, only the most privileged could afford to go to college. Today, millions of students pursue higher education, but collectively they owe $1.7 trillion in debt.

The federal government promised an Oregon hospital millions of dollars to help prepare for an earthquake. They're still waiting for the money.

In the last weeks of the Trump administration, the U.S. is moving to close a two-decade chapter and withdraw from Afghanistan, causing great apprehension among Afghans as the Taliban step up attacks.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to skateboard icon Tony Hawk about his life on the board and his documentary "Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off."

After years of planning, the Trump administration is overhauling a federal universal broadband initiative to open the door to Musk's Starlink satellite service.

NPR's Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave talk about an innovation in plastic recycling, the link between smartphones and hemorrhoids and what Mars' structure and ice cream have in common.

COVID-19, polarization and election misinformation — including from the president — are three factors in politicians suffering harassment and even threats from voters in recent weeks.

The American sci-fi novelist Ken Liu talks about his new thriller All That We See or Seem and the blurred lines between technology, reality, and imagination.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Tina Cordova, a downwinder of the Trinity Test and a cancer survivor, and Sen. Ben Ray Lujan about their fight to get compensation for New Mexico radiation victims.

Turkey purchased the S-400 missile defense system from Russia, jeopardizing its relationship with the U.S. and NATO. But there has been mixed messaging from Washington, D.C., about the consequences.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to bassist Robert Trujillo and founding drummer Lars Ulrich of the band Metallica about their latest album and their four decades of music-making.

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne diseases.

Long before the Town of Davie became known for horses and rodeos, it was miles of untamed Everglades. After the wetlands were drained in the early 1900s, people flocked there for the agriculture and development opportunities. The pioneers who settled learned to work the land and face the challenges of building a new community. At the heart of those early days was the Davie School. Today, it's the Old Davie School Museum.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Bridget Brink, who recently resigned her post as US Ambassador to Ukraine, on President Trump's handling of the war in Ukraine and his posture towards Vladimir Putin.

Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge and trigger a new outbreak years later. How do they survive? And how can they be kayoed?

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho about his new film, Mickey 17, the story of a man hired to die repeatedly, yet still retains his humanity.

We visit The Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, where a white supremacist mass shooting took place 12 years ago.

The loved ones of Sandy Hook shooting victims sued Infowars founder Alex Jones and won. A judge ordered Jones to sell off his assets -- allowing the satirical news outlet The Onion to buy his website.

Prosecutors say Rozier and others passed confidential intel to organized crime groups to help wager on NBA games. Billups allegedly participated in a separate scheme involving underground poker games.

A halt in SNAP payments has millions worried about their next meal, raising new questions about how a program born in the Great Depression still defines America's fight against hunger.

A new film directed by Kathryn Bigelow wonders how the U.S. would react to a nuclear missile launch of undetermined origin heading its way.

On Ash Wednesday, Christians hear the words "Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return." Those words ring differently for many whose churches and homes burned in the Los Angeles fires.