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The NBA season tips off Tuesday with a doubleheader. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with NBA hall of famer Grant Hill about the season's key storylines and the return of NBC as official broadcast partner.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Kathy Sullivan, an American geologist, who has made history by reaching the deepest point on the surface of the Earth.

As news outlets contract and falsehoods circulate online, researchers want to know if trusted community messengers can help link people to quality information.

An ongoing NPR investigation into military health care reveals that four out of 10 U.S. military bases are located within a federally designated health care desert.

On "The Florida Roundup," Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, digs into reducing property taxes. He said the House is trying to get ideas out there to stir a conversation.

The International Association of Chiefs of Police has issued two resolutions focused on ICE agents' use of face masks and heated comments around policing coming from influential leaders. Ari Shapiro speaks with Terrence Cunningham, a retired police chief and head of the IACP.

Texas Rep. Al Green, a Democrat, was officially censured Thursday in a vote in the House following his protest on Tuesday during President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with singer Laufey about making jazz more accessible to younger generations. She has a new album called Bewitched.

Paul Kingsnorth self-published The Wake, his tale of the 11th-century Norman conquest of England, written in a pastiche of Old and modern English — and was startled when it became a smash hit.

Rapper Kendrick Lamar dropped a scathing rebuke against Drake in a new song. NPR's A Martinez talks about the fascination with diss tracks with Noah A. McGee of the online magazine The Root.

Several of the artworks in the exhibition are coming to the U.S. for the first time. "He never saw a wall that he couldn't envision covered with a large Tintoretto," says co-curator Robert Echols.

It's day two of the French Open. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Sports Illustrated executive editor Jon Wertheim about what to expect from tennis' aging greats and up-and-comers.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Education Secretary Miguel Cardona about President Biden's latest student loan debt forgiveness plan.

Supported by USAID, the Ethiopian clinic provides lifesaving medicine for HIV-positive kids and teens to suppress the virus. First came the 90-day freeze — and now an immediate termination of support.

Known for their energy and bombast, Donald Trump's rally speeches have become increasingly erratic. The former president is visibly tired amid a whirlwind schedule in the final days of the campaign.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Republican Rep. Marianette Miller-Meeks about the vote to ouster Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the house.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Arzan Tarapore, a research scholar at Stanford University who focuses on South Asian security issues. They discuss the complex relationship between India and the U.S.

While too much shouldn't be made out of off-year elections, today's will be the first major electoral sign of the political mood and what voters think of the president.

New economic research shows Americans are no longer as likely to make more than their parents did at the same age. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to New York Times columnist David Leonhardt about what he calls the "Index of the American Dream."

Elon Musk could become the world's first trillionaire if Tesla's new compensation package gets approved. Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Darrell West talks about the implications of the offer.

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant discuss the NCAA Final Four and the formerly unbreakable NHL record that's now tied about to be broken.

NPR"s Scott Detrow speaks with Marcus Dowling, country music reporter for The Tennessean about Ringo Starr's new country music album, 'Look Up.'

Baseball playoffs begin Tuesday with some familiar teams: the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and LA Dodgers. But the San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Guardians are back.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with two educators about teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby 100 years after its publication.

Mashed blood, dried squirrel, spicy fish eggs: A writer from an oppressed Hindu caste publishes a cookbook that he hopes will shatter the notion of a mostly vegetarian India.