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About half of African-American women in the U.S. are obese, compared to 30 percent of white women. Black women not only carry more weight, but they start piling on extra pounds years before their white counterparts. Around age 8 or 9, girls become less active, and the decline is steepest for black girls.

375 workers at the Brook Park Ford plant will be laid off beginning Monday, October 9.

The ruling keeps a block on the Trump administration from denying citizenship to children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily.

The Canton Police Department has introduced a recruit to its team, a Labradoodle named Autumn, to help address the mental health challenges faced by both officers and the community.

Kroger's $1.65 billion purchase of the Giant Eagle supermarket chain was announced Wednesday.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with political commentators, E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and Guy Benson is the Political Editor of Townhall.com about the response of politicians as they deal with charges of sexual misbehavior.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with E.J. Dionne of the Brookings Institution and Mary Katharine Ham of CNN about this week's developments in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with David Brooks of The New York Times and E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post, whose new book is Code Red, about who wins from the Iowa caucuses and the impeachment process.

Ellen and Ben Harper both grew up in the Folk Music Center in Claremont Calif., which Ellen's parents founded in 1958. They join Fresh Airto discuss Ellen's new memoir, Always a Song.

In its 1977 review, the Dallas Morning News called Chewbacca a "Wookie." Now, on the film's 40th anniversary, the long national nightmare has ended. The correct spelling is "Wookiee."