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Antoinette Tuff prevented a mass shooting at an elementary school last year by calming down the mentally ill gunman. Tuff speaks with host Michel Martin about her new memoir Prepared for a Purpose, and that fateful day in Georgia.

An 88-year-old Vermont woman is using FaceTime each day with her 92-year-old husband because his nursing home has barred visitors due to the coronavirus pandemic. She worries he'll forget her.

On Oct. 11, 2001, more than 5,000 Kansans took part in a project called "A Day in My Community." Residents kept a diary for a single day, to leave a historical record of their lives at the beginning of the millennium. In the second part of the Prairie Diaries series, high school student Amber Peterman reflects on growing up in a small town and dreams about her future, perhaps as a writer. Read her diary and others in the series.

To stay healthy, we need at least 150 minutes of exercise weekly. This routine, created with a celebrated trainer, hits this goal in 22 minutes a day — cardio, weight training and stretching included.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Andy Horowitz, author of "Katrina: A History 1915-2015," about misconceptions post-Hurricane Katrina and his assertion that what happened in 2005 was entirely predictable.

On Tuesday, President Trump will address Congress. Over the weekend, he doubled down on his attacks on the press and tweeted that he will not attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April.

Ocean litter is a global problem. These Greeks are acting locally to clean up the Aegean.

NPR's Noel King talks to journalist Sam Dagher about his book Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family's Lust for Power Destroyed Syria.

Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut tells NPR's Michel Martin what Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee want to hear when former Trump attorney Michael Cohen testifies on Thursday.

Income and wealth inequality is just about as American as baseball and apple pie. And although the economy has improved in the last few years, the unemployment rate for black Americans is about double that for whites.