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Messages of sadness and support flood London after the Princess of Wales reveals she's undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. The announcement comes as King Charles is getting cancer treatment as well.

A man who has been running on Miami Beach every day for the past 50 years is getting a street named for him. We catch up with him on one of his runs.

The major TV networks cleared their schedules to air the impeachment hearings. Millions of Americans watched. There were few viral moments, yet viewers found a televised exercise in civics.

From the NBA Finals to the French Open, Scott Simon discusses highlights from the week in sports with ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine senior writer Howard Bryant.

Most of us have heard you need 10,000 steps a day to stave off health problems, but new research is finding that number is not necessary -- though more is always better.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with WWNO reporter Alana Schreiber, in New Orleans, about how she helped reunite a Katrina evacuee with his childhood classmates.

The president of the American Bar Association says that the Trump administration is targeting judges and lawyers who make decisions it disagrees with.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, about the death penalty cases that have come under scrutiny this year.

Each year for the past 89, Galax, Va., has hosted what it proclaims is the world's oldest and largest fiddler's convention. People come from all around to keep alive a rich American musical tradition.

No one wants rats scurrying about their neighborhood. But they're a cunning and evasive foe. Now, a community near Boston is trying their luck with a different approach: rat birth control.

Prisons are experimenting with ways to help veterans who have committed crimes and are serving time. At one state prison in Washington state, veterans are organized in a cell block like a military unit, complete with unit insignia and flag ceremonies. The idea is to build on the discipline they learned in the military to help prepare them for a return to the community.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams praised the DOJ for shelving criminal charges against him. Critics say the move comes after Adams agreed to partner with Trump on immigration

In Michigan, authorities are investigating what caused a man to crash his truck into a church, then begin shooting people inside the chapel and then lighting the building on fire.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Cairo-based reporter Nada Arafat about allegations that Sen. Bob Menendez used his power to boost a halal meat business in New Jersey.

President Biden's COVID infection underscores a new surge of the pandemic, with another highly contagious virus strain and a federal scramble to provide more boosters to try to protect people.

After small pox was eradicated and vaccinations against the disease came to an end, people in parts of Africa started getting sick with something rarely seen before - mpox. Researchers eventually realized that with the end of smallpox vaccinations, any immunity to other pox viruses such as mpox went away. They say this helps to explain why there are historically high numbers of mpox cases in the world today.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning after a break with President Trump made a primary fight inevitable, says Georgia Public Broadcasting reporter Sarah Kallis.

Heavy rains closed roads and flooded subways in New York City today. New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency in several counties in the metro area.

Virginia's climate law requires 100% renewable energy by 2050. The commonwealth is also known as the data center capital of the world. Can those ambitions coexist?

A new executive order from Governor Roy Cooper sets more ambitious goals for fighting climate change across the state and calls for new efforts to limit environmental injustice.