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Americans are much less active in their leisure time than they were 20 years ago; that's true even for young people. Up to half of people say they're completely sedentary. Desk jobs don't help.

To mark Juneteenth, NPR staff members read the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth — the celebration to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States — is now a federal holiday.

Fighting in Gaza took an ominous turn Friday, as a 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire fell apart and the Israeli military announced its belief that one of its soldiers was captured by Hamas militants.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Joanne Freeman about her new book The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.

There’s nearly 30,000 people in southeastern Wisconsin without electricity, worried — not about the Packers, but about how to make it through a day that has a high of 7 (and wind chills as low as -34).

Grant Sabatier was a broke college graduate when he decided that he was going to make $1 million by age 30. Now, he's a successful blogger and digital strategist.

For the record, we hear how President Harry Truman explained his decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima to the American people. These are excerpts from a speech Truman made on August 9, 1945, three days after Hiroshima was destroyed.

On the fifth day of violent protests against the government, Chile's president apologized on national television for failing to see the problems of the people.

Days after the Feb. 6 earthquake in Turkey and Syria, hopes of finding people alive is waning. One U.S.-based team uses search-and-rescue dogs to try to find people still trapped days after the quake.

For days, police say, Samuel Patrick Groft cruised through the streets of Los Angeles on his bicycle, single-handedly chopping down about a dozen city trees with an electric chainsaw in three different neighborhoods.