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Counting steps is easy using a phone, a wearable or a fitness tracker. And scientists have lots of data to figure out how many daily steps you need to improve your health. Here's what they've found.

Housing advocates say converting motels to long-term housing is an opportunity to take advantage of underutilized spaces. Those against the proposal say the as-of-right nature takes away the local zoning board’s power.

People with higher body mass indexes say they're relieved by experts' new guidance to downplay the use of BMI in diagnosing people with weight problems or obesity.

The small plastic instrument has long been the go-to instrument in elementary schools. But it is capable of so much more than "Hot Cross Buns."

An Illinois landlord who killed a 6-year-old Muslim boy and severely injured the boy's mother in a brutal hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza began was sentenced to 53 years in prison.

The Trustees of Reservations has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize record books of a family that enslaved Black people, including Elizabeth Freeman. Freeman sued for her freedom and won in 1781.

Reich served under President Clinton from 1993 to 1997. He opens his new memoir, Coming Up Short, with an apology on behalf of the Baby Boom generation for failing to build a more just society.

They say April showers bring May flowers, let’s hope they are right! May has so much to celebrate. This week, we begin the month with Cinco de Mayo, new episodes and a game from everyone's favorite neighbor, Daniel Tiger, and a new movie starring Nature Cat!

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Tina Knowles, the mother of artists Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Solange Knowles, about her new memoir, "Matriarch."

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to author and journalist Tim Weiner about his new book, The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century.