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The women's finals in the Australian Open are already over. In baseball, power-hitter Prince Fielder has returned to his childhood team, the Detroit Tigers, for which his father played. Host Scott Simon talks sports with Howard Bryant of ESPN the Magazine and ESPN.com.

Joe Nocera is among critics who say that college athletics are an exploitative system. In a business that takes in $6 billion in revenue annually, should players get compensation beyond their scholarships? Nocera talks with guest host Jacki Lyden about his plan to make things right.

"They won back this ground for civilization," President Trump said of the Allied troops who took part in the massive D-Day invasion in 1944.

We devote episode 52 to some of the many people working on the front lines of the pandemic caring for COVID patients in New Mexico, sometimes without…

Young women with simple pregnancies can safely ask a doctor to induce labor, a study finds. It doesn't increase their risk of needing a C-section after all and can even offer potential benefits.

The storm made landfall Sunday evening in southern China, boasting heavy rains and 100 mph winds. The storm left dozens dead in the Philippines and more than 100 injured in Hong Kong.

"Our friends had been suggesting for a long time that we visit this wonderful town," the man known as Alexander Petrov tells RT. He's accused of traveling to the U.K. to poison a former KGB spy.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Mahdi Bakhtiari, political desk director at Iran's right-wing Tasnim News Agency, about the conflict between the U.S. and Iran.

The opposition party had its worst election result since 1935. Now its members are split over how to bounce back.

Video footage and the locations of key Iranian military facilities lend credence to the idea that the jetliner carrying 176 people was accidentally shot down.