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If you get a high reading at the doctor's office, it may not be definitive. Here's what to know about your risk — and testing your blood pressure at home.

In the closing stretch of the presidential campaign, Democrats see that their candidate is up in the polls — but fear another 2016. Joe Biden's campaign is specifically warning about complacency.

An NPR review of federal charges against people involved in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot shows they were armed with a wide variety of weapons, contradicting a false claim that rioters were not armed.

This week's highest debuts on the Billboard 200 albums chart — Benson Boone's American Heart, Karol G's Tropicoqueta and the soundtrack to Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters — all land in the top 10. But they don't come anywhere near displacing Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem.

As part of our series about students and teachers, musicologist Bruce Nemerov describes the way that one song is recorded by several different musicians in different decades of the 20th century. The older musicians are teaching the younger musicians through the song "Sitting on Top of the World." We hear the song as recorded by Al Jolson, The Mississippi Sheiks, Howlin' Wolf, Eric Clapton, Bill Monroe and The Grateful Dead.

Trump is calling for a "new" census that excludes people in the U.S. without legal status. The 14th Amendment requires the "whole number of persons in each state" in a key set of census results.

The company that operates the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Milwaukee says it has fired the guards involved in Mitchell's death late last month, saying their conduct "violated our policies and procedures."

A raccoon was on the roof and refused to budge. The driver continued another 6 miles to his destination, when the raccoon must have known the ride was over and just climbed down on his own.

After he was found by a Tampa airport's janitorial crew, a stuffed tiger named Hobbes was taken out for some gelato and on a behind-the-scenes tour of the airport.

For decades, an environmental group in Connecticut has picked up litter in parks, rivers and Long Island Sound. In Save the Sound’s new report summarizing hundreds of cleanups over the last six years, plastic pollution remains a statewide problem.