The Olympic Opening Ceremony begins in a few hours in Rio de Janeiro. Expect spectacle, glitz, glamour, patriotism and music. We introduce you to some of the artists and talk about how these games are occurring during a challenging time in Brazil.
On Saturday, Brett Favre will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A Super Bowl winner and three-time MVP, Favre's professional career started off a bit rocky. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com about Favre's beginnings.
Friday night's Olympic opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro provides the official start to 16 days of competition that will see the world's best athletes competing for the gold. Athletes from 206 countries plus, for the first time, a team of refugees will parade through legendary Maracana Stadium for the opening pageant.
If you'd like to escape the presidential election, take your banjo or fiddle to this week's Appalachian String Band Music Festival, known as "Clifftop," in West Virginia.
A pair of gun enthusiasts facing calls for police to revoke their firearm licenses say videos they filmed of the Greens logo being shot at and teddy bears dressed as Muslim terrorists exploding in flames are "a bit of harmless fun".
NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with Ramin Mostaghim, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times in Tehran, about how people in Iran view the U.S. presidential election.
With new jobs numbers out Friday and the recent anemic growth in the GDP, NPR takes stock of the economy three months before the election.
NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Dallas Morning News book editor Michael Merschel, who explains the origins of his creative out-of-office replies, and why it's important to be thoughtful in anything you write.
After Israel announced the arrest of a World Vision coordinator in Gaza on charges he aided Hamas, other aid groups worry about doing business in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
Incoming NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill takes the job at a challenging time for American policing. O'Neill is a 33-year-old police veteran who's overseen the department's shift toward a "community policing" model. NPR went to the Bronx, where O'Neill once served as commanding officer, to find out how the rollout is working.
Questions about Melania Trump's immigration history in the U.S. have surfaced this week. Trump says she has been in full compliance with U.S. immigration laws. But some immigration experts question whether she had the proper visas while working as a model.
In 2016, the fact that one of the biggest pop hits of the year owes its success almost entirely to the Internet is no longer a surprise.
Astrophysicists from Harvard and Oxford revealed a reason why we haven't found aliens, and it all has to do with time.
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Mecklenburg County Public Health Director Dr. Marcus Plescia said the center drained the water from its rapids into a downstream pond to be treated, and dug up the sediment at the bottom of the waterway where the amoeba lives.
The dog is said to be doing just fine.
BRASILIA, Brazil — The last thing Brazil’s men’s soccer team needed in its first game at the Olympics was to leave the field without a win and jeered by fans. The disappointing 0-0 draw against 10-man South Africa prompted loud boos from the crowd and renewed fears of another embarrassment at home just two years
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald and quarterback Carson Palmer have signed one-year contract extensions with the Arizona Cardinals. The deals put Fitzgerald under contract through the 2017 season and Palmer through 2018. Fitzgerald, holder of virtually all the franchise receiving records with statistics among the NFL’s all-time greats, turns 33 on Aug. 31.
MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte acknowledged abuses have occurred in his war on illegal drugs, which has left more than 400 people dead in a month and alarmed rights activists. Duterte said in a speech late Thursday that most drug dealers and addicts slain in gunbattles with police had put up a fight, but added that he was sure some were “salvaged,” a local slang for extrajudicial killings usually by law officers. Look at what you’re doing to the Philippines and I’ll forgive you? Duterte said... Читать дальше...
Beware of fish fraud: The supply chain for seafood is opaque, and most white-fleshed fish looks similar when filleted.
US stocks notched their best day in a month on Friday, helped by robust labour market data.
UNITED NATIONS — South Sudanese government forces were likely behind an attack on a U.N. camp for internally displaced people in order to foster the ethnic reconfiguration of the northern city of Malakal, according to a United Nations Board of Inquiry. The board’s executive summary released Friday blamed a combination of factors, including the political
RIO DE JANEIRO — The odds are good the U.S. will win the gold medal count once again in the Olympics. The odds are even better this year that there will be some money bet on it. Bookmakers in Las Vegas are making the U.S. the favorite to defend the gold medal crown from the
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A retired court services officer blames a mailer paid for by the Kansas Democratic Party for his defeat in the 4th Congressional District Democratic primary.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A retired court services officer blames a mailer paid for by the Kansas Democratic Party for his defeat in the 4th Congressional District Democratic primary.
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