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For quite a while, the annual number of fatalities from auto accidents has been a kind of shorthand for health issues that are big and important. Suicides now exceed deaths from crashes. And the middle-aged have seen the biggest increase in suicide rates.

Born Chad George Ha'aheo Rowan in Hawaii, Akebono moved to Tokyo in the 1980s, won his first grand championship in 1993, the first of 11 such titles, and retired in 2001. He died of heart failure.

An Arizona law that banned filming police in certain circumstances will be blocked permanently.

The bill awaits action by the governor and would bar minors from getting married — something activists say leads to abuses.

A gunman killed eight people before killing himself late Thursday at a FedEx warehouse in Indiana.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with NetChoice's Carl Szabo, a critic of Florida's new social media restrictions for kids, about age verification and fears of data collection.

In their new book, Annoying: The Science Of What Bugs Us, NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca and Science Friday's Flora Lichtman set out to examine why certain things — and people — drive us bananas.

Daniel Clowes' angst-ridden graphic novel is the basis for a new film starring Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern. Critic David Edelstein says Wilson's abrasive protagonist is worth getting to know.

NPR's Madeleine Brand speaks with Slate contributor David Edelstein about the death of screen legend Marlon Brando, star of Hollywood classics like On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Godfather.

New research supports the long-held hypothesis that the Grand Canyon is as young as six million years. That’s what geologists originally believed before a…