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Omicron is still spreading and it's crazy contagious. Experts share seven steps to deal with an infection, protect your household from getting sick and stay sane in the process.

Actor Don Cheadle is known for his roles in film and television. In this encore broadcast, host Michel Martin asks Cheadle if he's hit a career peak and how he'll know when to call it quits.

Some museums have a reputation for being boring, expensive and not kid friendly. But finding the right museum and planning a family trip there might be easier than you think.

Hurricane experts say forecasting storm intensity remains a big challenge. That’s especially true in an era of climate change that scientists say is likely producing more powerful and deadly storms.

The child care industry is pivotal for parents being able to work and for children's early learning. It struggles to compete for workers in a smaller labor market. A Miami day care offers a snapshot.

Joan Chen was only a teenager when she was awarded China's equivalent of the Oscar. Americans know Chen best for her roles in the TV series Twin Peaks and the film The Last Emperor. She is honored at this year's San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Chen talks with host Michel Martin.

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Plastic is everywhere, but we ditched it for a week. Here are some tips from our experiment that you can use to cut back your own plastic use.

They've got to reach urban dwellers as well as the two-thirds of Indians living in rural areas — and deal with vaccine hesitancy. Here's an early progress report on successes — and hiccups.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with David Robinson II, whose son Daniel Robinson has been missing for nearly two years, and Natalie Wilson, co-founder of the Black and Missing Foundation.

Along with a growing number of war-wounded amputees, Mykhailo Varvarych and Iryna Botvynska are navigating an altered destiny after Varvarych lost both his legs during the Russian invasion.

Of course now was the moment for a Charli xcx-assisted Wuthering Heights: Pop fandoms and literary ones have rarely had more in common, especially when it comes to epic romance.

In the middle of the school year, Hayden Dallip was at home in Miami Gardens when he got a call from his seventh-grade daughter. “She was crying—she...

Hurricane Irma's projected path is still not clear, but state leaders are urging Floridians to prepare for the worst.Some events around the Tampa Bay area…

As a new year begins, we look back at some of our favorite interviews of 2021.

Last week, NPR asked you to submit your questions on back pain. This week, Dr. James Weinstein answers your questions, tackling subjects from back pain and backpacks to whether it's safe to jog with a "bad back."

Dr. Washington Hill, 83, says many doctors are too young to have experienced seeing women suffer dangerous infections and fatal complications from attempted abortions.

For the past six months, former Star Garden dancers have been taking their talents to a show-stopping picket line. If successful, they'll be the only strippers with union representation in the U.S.

This year, cooks poured their hearts into these carefully crafted, kitchen how-tos. T. Susan Chang says these cookbooks are like a properly seasoned skillet — heavy-duty, battle-tested and much to be prized.

Rodney Boblitt’s job was to patrol the coastline looking for signs of oil. Today, he is among thousands of workers experiencing health issues and suing BP, but proving their conditions were caused by the oil spill has been challenging.

About 15 million properties in the U.S. are prone to flooding, but patchwork and ineffective disclosure laws mean most people get little to no information about flood risk before they move.

In the Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, Alice Wong shares pieces of her story and experience as a disabled Asian American through a collection of essays, interviews, photos and illustrations.

Former Obama Labor Secretary Tom Perez has been elected as chairman of the DNC. Perez appointed his final opponent, Rep. Keith Ellison, as deputy chair.

In the three decades between her solo debut and this year's Fossora, Björk has turned her singular singing voice toward a more egalitarian ideal.

Hurricane Irma didn’t create the substandard living conditions plaguing the rural town's poor, mostly farm-working families, but it exposed many outsiders to their plight. Now, a group has raised the money and is working to build new housing.