The Oakland A's hire the first female primary play-by-play announcer in MLB history
February 14, 2024
Jenny Cavnar will call most of the games during the 2024 season. She was the backup play-by-play announcer for the Colorado Rockies for 12 ...
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Large majorities of Americans say antisemitism is a serious problem
February 13, 2024
A report from the American Jewish Committee finds that 94% of American Jews say antisemitism is a "very serious" or "somewha...
At 79, she reached her goal to visit every country in the world
February 12, 2024
Luisa Yu spent the past five decades plotting to see all 193 U.N.-recognized countries. To realize her dream, she faced numerous visa hurdl...
Debate simmers over when doctors should declare brain death
February 11, 2024
Bioethicists, doctors and lawyers are weighing whether to redefine how someone should be declared dead. A change in criteria for brain deat...
Jill Biden wonders whether special counsel used son's death to score political points
February 11, 2024
"Joe is 81... but he's 81 doing more in an hour than most people do in a day. Joe has wisdom, empathy, and vision," Jill Bide...
Social isolation takes a toll on a rising number of South Korea's young adults
February 11, 2024
A growing number of South Korea's young adults are isolating themselves from society, raising questions about the state of youths in a ...
Vets' jewelry company feels the 'Swift effect' after the singer wore diamond bracelet
February 10, 2024
A year ago NPR talked with two former U.S. Army Rangers who started a jewelry company. After Taylor Swift wore one of their bracelets at a ...
The Swift-Kelce romance sounds like a movie. But the NFL swears it wasn't scripted
February 09, 2024
Taylor Swift's relationship with the Kansas City Chiefs' Travis Kelce has boosted NFL ratings all season, meaning this year's S...
'Nipplegate' was 20 years ago — but has the treatment of female stars improved?
February 08, 2024
The new book Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s reassesses a time when popular culture policed, ridiculed and even took down a vari...
Venezuela's leftist leader Maduro makes a play for evangelical voters
February 07, 2024
Evangelical Christians are often courted by right-wing politicians. But in Venezuela, left-wing President Nicolás Maduro is trying to secur...
5 MLK speeches you should know. Spoiler: 'I Have a Dream' isn't on the list
February 07, 2024
Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech is well known, but there are several other key speeches that also...
Her fiancé started to struggle while swimming. Then she saw a surfer approaching
February 06, 2024
Lauryn Valladarez was five months pregnant and watching her fiancé start to struggle in the ocean. That's when she started to panic. (...
Who is Handala, the barefoot, spiky-haired boy who symbolizes Palestinian resistance?
February 06, 2024
Created by cartoonist Naji al-Ali in 1969, Handala is a 10-year-old Palestinian refugee with his back to the world. The war in Gaza has ren...
On Babe Ruth's birthday, watch these videos of the 'first sports celebrity'
February 06, 2024
Babe Ruth would have been 129 this week. Baseball has changed over the years, but one thing that has endured is fans' fascination with ...
Why problems at a key Boeing supplier may help explain the company's 737 Max 9 mess
February 05, 2024
Federal investigators are scrutinizing Spirit AeroSystems, a major Boeing supplier based in Kansas, as they try to understand why a fuselag...
Tennessee law denied Allie Phillips an abortion. So she's now running for office
February 05, 2024
Phillips, 28, never expected to go into politics. But after she got devastating news about her pregnancy, everything changed. (Image credi...
Do your kids want a dog? Science may be on their side
February 04, 2024
Kids who have dogs get significantly more physical activity, compared to kids who don't. Researchers followed 600 children over three y...
How often will Taylor Swift be shown during the Super Bowl? Now you can bet on it
February 04, 2024
The tectonic collision of two entertainment powerhouses — the NFL and Taylor Swift — dominated TV screens this fall. Now, sportsbooks are l...
A seaside town shelters thousands of Israeli evacuees, but struggles without tourists
February 04, 2024
The tourists are gone and many of the hotels are filled with displaced Israelis nearly four months after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. (Image c...
El Salvador is poised to reelect its popular but authoritarian president
February 03, 2024
El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, is widely expected to be reelected in a landslide. He has cracked down on gangs but also has tak...
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