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If you sit too much during middle age — at work and at home — your ability to exercise or even walk in late decades is at risk, research hints. And, of course, your risk of heart disease climbs, too.

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly named Kenzie House as Sober Beginning's third sober home. Kacy Keith and Traci Jordan recently…

Grand Isle, a narrow island south of New Orleans, is under constant threat from hurricanes. And like Louisiana's other barrier islands, it will eventually erode away. But longtime resident Ambrose Besson says he'll never leave. Journalist Jake Halpern talks to Besson in the last of his Braving Home series.

In a StoryCorps conversation recorded in 2018, Roman Coley Davis tells a friend about how a surprise package brought him comfort when the loneliness of war began to seep in.

Ballet dancer Carlos Acosta is known for powerful leaps that make him seem to fly. Those leaps have earned him comparisons with Nureyev and Baryshnikov. He grew up in a poor neighborhood outside Havana. How that boy became a man who dances with grace and power is the subject of Acosta's memoir, No Way Home.

The Montana State Women’s basketball win against Portland Pilots 72-54.

Apple's iPod and other digital music players are reshaping the home-stereo business. Users aren't just relying on the devices to store their music. In some instances, they're using them as their main listening device in the home.

Photographer Hannah Yoon documents families in her Philadelphia neighborhood as they adjust to life during the pandemic. Parents remain thankful for time together while juggling work and education.

Veterans' homes have been ravaged by the virus. The VA has just announced new rules for its caregivers program, but veterans' groups fear thousands will be left behind.

Garrison Keillor's final A Prairie Home Companion airs Saturday. NPR's Scott Simon remembers the show, beloved by so many, and Keillor's particular talent for telling a story.