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After months under lockdown, thousands of pubs in England opened on Saturday. Beer drinkers are calling it their own "Independence Day," but health experts worry it could spread the coronavirus.

Clint Martin, a trainer at the University of Texas at Austin, tells NPR's Scott Simon about the importance of maintaining fitness and nutrition while stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic.

Karl Zinsmeister, the new domestic policy advisor to President Bush, was quoted as calling people in the nation's capital "morally repugnant, cheating, shifty human beings." He tried to alter those remarks at a Web site that posted those original comments. Madeleine Brand discusses the controversy surrounding Zinsmeister's comments -- and his attempt to soften them -- with Slate White House correspondent John Dickerson.

AAA is forecasting record-high travel this weekend, when more than 50 million Americans are expected to get out of town. That could mean clogged roads and snarls at airports.

There are less than 100 days until the Iowa caucuses, which will mark the first actual voting in this long presidential campaign. And Sen. Barack Obama, who trails Sen. Hillary Clinton as frontrunner, is in Iowa urging voters to sign on to his movement.

India produces some of the world's greatest engineers and scientists, but some of its most influential and educated people also consult the stars. Pandit Ajai Bhambi is one of an army of astrologers dispensing advice to politicians about the general elections, which end May 16.

NPR's Juana Summers talks to Antoine Renard, of the U.N. World Food Programme, about the increasing risk of famine in Gaza as Israel's aid blockade continues.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified Wednesday before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. It's his second day of testimony on Capitol Hill in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The weekend storms took everyone by surprise, including the National Weather Service. So how did it happen and what did they see?

There’s no single reason for the slight drop in opioid overdose deaths across most of the U.S. last year. But finding new ways to make Narcan available in public, 24 hours a day, is helping.