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Here's how 10 minutes of mindfulness can help make or break a family vacation

Research shows it's possible to generative positive emotions and memories, even amid strife and anxiety. If you're planning a family vacation, a simple meditation exercise can help you keep your cool.

Dr. Kara Beasley protests the overturning of Roe vs. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court, in Denver, Colorado on June 24, 2022.

Doctors weren't considered in Dobbs, but now they're on abortion's legal front lines

In a departure from earlier Supreme Court decisions on abortion, Justice Alito's abortion opinion barely mentions medicine. This creates a perilous new legal reality for doctors, legal analysts say.

This 1981 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a human respiratory syncytial virus, also known as RSV. On Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, a panel of U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers narrowly backed an experimental vaccine from Pfizer that could become the first shot to protect older adults against the RSV respiratory virus.

US Food and Drug Administration approves first RSV vaccine

On Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Arexvy, the first respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine.

A row of fire engines fighting the Border 32 Fire, Sept. 3, 2022.

Border 32 Fire near Tecate now 95% contained

No active flames remained in the sooty footprint of the conflagration as of Friday and the perimeters of the fire had not expanded since Thursday, according to Cal Fire San Diego.

As many as 24 million people across the U.S. are expected to lose Medicaid coverage over the next year, according to estimates by the health policy research organization KFF.

Texas Medicaid dropped more than 500,000 enrollees in one month

Medicaid is shedding enrollees for the first time since the pandemic started. But rolls in some states are shrinking much faster than in others. Nearly 4 million people have lost coverage so far.

PJ Harvey's latest album is <em>I Inside the Old Year Dying</em>. It's a knotty musical expansion of the world she created in <em>Orlam</em>, the epic poem Harvey published in 2022.

'Life and death is such a fine line': PJ Harvey on creating in a place between worlds

Harvey talks with NPR Music's Ann Powers about her album I Inside the Old Year Dying, a ragged, highly crafted adaptation of her epic poem Orlam, and why she prefers to make art without boundaries.

Dueling signs dot Virginia's Arlington County as residents debate the zoning reform proposal. This photo first appeared in DCist. Click <a href="https://wamu.org/story/23/01/20/arlington-missing-middle-housing/">here</a> to read that story.

The U.S. needs more affordable housing — where to put it is a bigger battle

American suburbs mandated single-family homes generations ago, often to segregate areas by race and class. New laws allow more-affordable options like townhomes but construction so far has been slow.

Randy Meisner, founding member of the Eagles, dies at 77

Called "the sweetest man in the music business" by ex-bandmate Don Felder, Meisner joined Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon in the early '70s to form one of the most popular acts in history.

The Wahweap Marina, squeezed by the dropping and encroaching shoreline of Lake Powell on the Colorado River behind the Glen Canyon Dam outside Page, Ariz., on Feb. 20, 2023. The bathtub ring marking the once-high level of the lake is visible on the red rock formations in the distance. Full story <a href="https://www.cpr.org/2023/04/18/colorado-river-in-photos-parched/">here</a>.

2023 in photos: NPR station photographers share memorable moments

From across the country, NPR member station visual journalists have documented events in their states and cities. These images represent some of the year's most remarkable stories.

Detail of the in-progress installation of Shinpei Takeda's "Limit of Your Safe Space" exhibition is shown in an undated photo. The work will be on view at Oceanside Museum of Art this weekend through Sept. 10, 2022.

San Diego weekend arts events: Oceanside music, so much photography, 'Don Quixote' and more

This weekend in the arts: "San Diego Views" at Joseph Bellows Gallery; "Music at the Museum" plus Shinpei Takeda at Oceanside Museum of Art; Chris Warren's sound immersion at Art Produce; City Ballet's "Don Quixote"; and Plays by Young Writers at Joan Kroc Theatre.

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