Health & Safety

Most children in the U.S. don't drink enough water, and summer heat and outdoor play can increase water needs.

Water Break: Is Your Child Drinking Enough Fluids This Summer?

3:26pm June 27, 2016

by Carolyn Beans

From sports camps to running around on the playground, kids can log long hours in the summer heat. Many don't stop to drink water. A few simple moves by camps, coaches and parents can help.

Supreme Court Finds Texas Law On Abortion Providers Unconstitutional

12:28pm June 27, 2016

The 2-year-old law required clinics that provide abortions to have surgical facilities and doctors to have hospital admitting privileges; the justices reversed a federal appeals court decision, 5-3.

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VIDEO: 'Call Me Maybe' Parody Pokes Fun At India's Marriage Ads

3:00pm June 26, 2016

by Chhavi Sachdev

A trio of female college students didn't like the way "matrimonial adverts" depict women. So they wrote a song about it.

To Help A Criminal Go Straight, Help Him Change How He Thinks

7:00am June 26, 2016

by Jack Bush

More than half of prisoners released from prison are rearrested within a year. Cognitive therapy can help prisoners change the thinking that gets them in trouble, like "I'll never back down."

Caitlin McConnico tweeted us this picture taken in early June while camping at Makgadikgadi Pans National Park in Botswana.

Health & Safety

#NPRNightSky: Your Star-Studded Pix From The World's Inkiest Skies

7:00am June 26, 2016

by NPR Staff

We asked, you answered, with photos of the heavens from Botswana, Tanzania — and Oregon.

A team of volunteers cooks for African migrants living at a camp in their town of Paso Canoas, Costa Rica.

Cooking Chicken And Plantains For African Migrants In Costa Rica

7:00am June 26, 2016

by Rolando Arrieta

Debora Jiménez says it is her moral duty to help feed the hundreds of Africans now stranded in her country.

Personality Tests Are Popular, But Do They Capture The Real You?

5:18am June 25, 2016

by Annie Murphy Paul

It can be a lot of fun taking those back-of-the-magazine personality tests. But tests may be less fun when they are used by employers to make big life decisions on hiring and job performance.

Motivational speaker Tony Robbins is interviewed on the Fox Business Network in March. Dozens of people were burned in a coal-walking exercise at one of his seminars.

Dozens Burned During Tony Robbins Motivational Exercise

7:08pm June 24, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Seminar participants were hoping to conquer their fears by walking over hot coals. Instead, dozens at the Dallas event were treated for burns. A Robbins representative says there was no emergency.

Invisibilia: Is Your Personality Fixed, Or Can You Change Who You Are?

5:59pm June 24, 2016

by Alix Spiegel

A man committed a horrible crime. Then he decided he no longer wanted to be a bad person. It is possible to change our personalities, psychologists say, even though we like to think they're innate.

At Blue Cross and Blue Shield headquarters in Eagan, Minn., the losses on the sale of insurance plans to individuals led to a change in course.

Minnesota's Largest Health Insurer Will Drop Individual Plans

5:54pm June 24, 2016

by Mark Zdechlik

More than 100,000 Minnesotans will need to look for new insurance for 2017. Blue Cross Blue Shield is pulling back from the state's market for individual policies, citing heavy losses.