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If you're going to have surgery, "prehabilitation" focused on nutrition, exercise and social support in the month before can significantly cut the risk of complications, according to a new study.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, about the Trump administration's executive order to overhaul the Smithsonian Institution.

With many of those trapped potentially having sustained serious injuries, and unable to access food or water, operators are now locked in a race against time to get them out before it's too late.

A bipartisan Congress has come to the rescue of vets at risk of losing their homes, after administrations from both parties tore up VA safety nets for homeowners.

Some Yankees players used a new bat during the second game in the Major League Baseball series against the Milwaukee Brewers.

The diocese is the first in the U.S. to issue a special dispensation because of fears over immigration detentions.

NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson joins NPR's Ayesha Rascoe to discuss the spending battle and how it could affect the early months of the incoming Trump administration.

Each winter, Portland volunteers "taxi" Northern red-legged frogs to and from their egg-spawning ground. The service protects them from becoming roadkill on a highway.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Rep. Greg Landsman, a lawmaker who signed a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio asking whether a database of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia had been deleted.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ann Veneman, President George W. Bush's agriculture secretary, about the relationship between farmers and the federal government.