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Poor diet, lack of exercise, stress and trauma, all drive America's declining life expectancy and high rates of chronic disease. So how can we live better in America? NPR looks for answers.

Central Park West draws from James Comey's experience in the FBI and as a U.S attorney for the southern district of New York.

I always find it disturbing when an incident that "I know" turns out to have been quite different from how it's consistently reported and what I believed to be true. Here's the standard media version of the Chin murder, via NPR last year: Forty years ago, 27-year-old Vincent Chin was…

In 2004, a U.S. general told the family of an Iraqi interpreter that insurgents killed their brother. The truth was more painful: He was mistakenly killed by Americans he had risked his life to help.

Kids today live in an ultra-processed world: Nearly 70% of what they eat is packaged, processed and probably not great for them. Here are ways to cut back, without cooking every meal from scratch.

For generations, the Khoisan people harvested the rooibos plant to make tea. As this caffeine-free drink has grown trendy — 9,000 tons exported a year — they've been cut out of revenues. Until now.

Black Twitter has been a force since the platform started. Now, one woman is seeking to archive it, as Twitter's future appears uncertain.

Nakala Murry says her son doesn't understand what happened to him. "His words to me were: 'Why did he shoot me? What did I do?' "

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