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About 20 years ago, Arkansas started weighing children in school and sending home letters to try to combat obesity. Even though obesity rates only have risen, many other states picked up the policy.

Israel says its ground operations into Lebanon are limited, targeted raids. In Marjayoun, a town on Lebanon’s border with Israel, rocket fire and raids backed by airstrikes haven't let up.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Azmat Khan, an investigative reporter for The New York Times Magazine, about U.S. airstrikes and drone usage in Afghanistan.

The C.M. Russell Museum contains more than 3,000 pieces of Western art in a complex that covers an entire city block. The Western art complex, a National Historic Landmark, includes Charlie Russell’s fully restored home and studio, where he lived and created for 24 years alongside wife and business partner Nancy Cooper Russell.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with comedian Dave Chappelle about his investments in public media, the art of standup comedy and the town of Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Public health experts say tracing the close contacts of people infected with the coronavirus and getting them all into quarantine is crucial to stopping the pandemic. That's easier said than done.

Health care workers are using #WeStayHereForYouPleaseStayHomeForUs.

The novel earned Jones the $35,000 award for tackling difficult social issues in fiction. The prize's head judge says the book is "going to have a place in the literary imagination for a long time."

A former Minnesota House speaker and her husband were killed and a state senator and his wife were wounded in targeted shootings Saturday at their homes near Minneapolis, officials said.

Russian forces appear to be escalating attacks on urban areas of Ukraine as 680,000 people have fled their homes. Sanctions are piling up, and the West is supplying more military hardware to Ukraine.