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Research shows people who do weight training a few days a week live longer. Women get the biggest boost in longevity. Strength training is also good for mood, and it helps protect joints and bones.

Alabama passed a bill to protect IVF providers from legal liability. But it doesn't address the larger questions posed by the ruling that said frozen embryos qualify as children under the law.

With the Oscars handed out, NPR critic Linda Holmes reflects on the night's big winners, takeaways, and telecast highlights.

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has arrived with no ceasefire in Gaza. There's growing anxiety about tensions spreading to Jerusalem, where the Al-Aqsa mosque sits at the very center of the conflict.

The SS United States, once a luxurious ocean liner, holds the speed record for crossing the Atlantic. It's rusting away at a pier in Philadelphia and could soon be evicted and scrapped.

Fudge, 71, is one of the few cabinet members to leave the Biden administration so far, and will return home to Ohio. She says affordable housing is a bipartisan challenge that needs more funding.

The new law, which passed unanimously in the Virginia House and Senate, will take effect July 1.

Music can shift, uplift or even subvert a scene. This week on 8 Tracks, we play music supervisor, imagining songs by Kamasi Washington and Carin León on the big screen.

Ramadan begins as five months of war passes in Gaza. Countries including Jordan, Sweden, Canada and the U.S. continue to contribute aid to help with the growing humanitarian crisis.

Is this your first total solar eclipse, or did you have your glasses out in 2017, too? However you're celebrating, we want to hear from you.

The woman who appears central to an anecdote told by GOP Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., in the GOP response to the State of the Union called the use of her story "distorted for political purposes.

Actors, directors and musicians at the 2024 Oscars wore the red pins to support a group called Artists4Ceasfire, which is calling for an immediate and permanent cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.

Environmentalists are suing Utah to force water cutbacks to farmers to save the Great Salt Lake. Farmers call the blame unfair and say that would have its own environmental and economic consequences.

Mentions of retail theft seem to be fading, their fever pitch cooling. What's changed? And how bad was the problem in the first place?

School systems of every size have been hit by cyberattacks. "It's not Johnny in his room trying to break in and change his grades anymore," says one superintendent.

My husband is high risk and still takes COVID precautions. I want our old life back.

What better way to spend March 11 than with 311 bringing love and nostalgia to the Tiny Desk.

Intimate concerts, recorded live at NPR Music headquarters.

President Biden's budget proposal is unlikely to pass in a divided Congress. But it's a key statement of his values — and meant to put Republican lawmakers on notice, his administration says.

NPR's A Martinez talks to budget director Shalanda Young about the White House saying it would cut the deficit by about $3 trillion over the next 10 years, and protect Social Security and Medicare.

"Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing," the princess of Wales said, acknowledging suspicions about a family photo.

Ramadan begins in many countries, without the Israel-Hamas cease-fire that the U.S. hoped would be in place by the holy month. Plus, takeaways from an Oscars ceremony heavy on the Kenergy.

Now that the presidential race has narrowed to President Biden and the presumptive nominee, former President Donald Trump, we look at how they're kicking off their general election campaigns.

The world has been pushing for a pause in the fighting in the Israel-Hamas war by the start of Ramadan. The Muslim holy month has begun and still no cease-fire agreement is in place.

The official state insect is the European praying mantis. The reason why they want it changed is right in the name: European. The students want to honor a species native to Connecticut.