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In ‘Good Energy,’ a doctor lays out how to measure and boost your metabolic health

Exercise, nutritious diet and good sleep all support your metabolic health, which Dr. Casey Means argues is key to preventing chronic disease. pixdeluxe/Getty Images/E+ In medical school, Casey Means could tell that her own health was slipping. The culprits? Crummy food, long...

Kindergartners are missing a lot of school. This district has a fix

Selma Herndon Elementary School kindergarten teacher Diana Dickey starts the day each morning by asking students to share how they are feeling. Preston Gannaway for NPR In rural Livingston, Calif., where people are vastly outnumbered by sweet potatoes, something remarkable is...

Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Trump-era ban on "bump stocks," simple devices that can allow automatic fire from otherwise semi-automatic guns.  Mandel Ngan/AFP The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on bump stocks Friday, declaring that the...

La Niña is likely to arrive this summer. Here’s what that means for hurricane season

A satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Idalia, center, over Florida and crossing into Georgia, and Hurricane Franklin, right, as it moves along off the East coast of the U.S., on Aug. 30,...

Dozens of hikers became ill during trips to waterfalls near the Grand Canyon

A photo shows Mooney Falls on the Havasupai reservation in Arizona in May. Dozens of tourists say they fell ill on a recent visit to a popular and picturesque stretch of waterfalls deep in a gorge neighboring Grand Canyon...