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"What's good for the heart is good for the brain," one neuroscientist says. In addition to physical exercise, researchers say mental exercise, socializing and a good diet can help preserve memory.

Each year, the town of Verona, Italy — home of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet — receives thousands of letters of unrequited love addressed to the play's star-crossed heroine. And each letter — more than 6,000 a year — is answered by hand by a team of secretaries at the Juliet Club.

A collaboration between three prominent artistic voices — singer Lawrence Brownlee, composer Tyshawn Sorey and poet Terrance Hayes — examines what it means to be a Black man in America today.

These days hospitals drill for mass casualty disasters like the explosions at Monday's Boston Marathon. But when it happened for real, the first response was disbelief. Then the victims began arriving. Doctors say they were confronted with the kinds of IED injuries that U.S. troops have gotten in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Download new music from hip-hop veteran N.O.R.E., indie-rock favorites Telekinesis and Phosphorescent, soul man Charles Bradley, folksinger Samantha Crain and many more in this special edition of Heavy Rotation.

The fluffy Siberian forest cat upstages Austin Butler, Zoe Kravitz, Regina King and Bad Bunny in the new action comedy Caught Stealing.

Denmark's foreign minister summoned the top U.S. diplomat in the country after it was reported that at least three people with connections to President Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.

After deadly Minneapolis mass shooting, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison push for federal, state and local gun reform.

Tensions are escalating between the U.S. and Russia and there's another shakeup in the president's cabinet. David Brooks of the New York Times and E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and the Brookings Institution join NPR's Ari Shapiro to discuss the week in politics.

In a true Cinderella story, Loyola Chicago is in the NCAA Men's basketball Final Four. The last time they were here, 1963, it wasn't nearly as shocking, but it did help change the face of college basketball.