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The world's top-ranked player tested positive for low levels of a banned steroid after his physiotherapist used a topical spray to treat a small cut before giving Sinner a massage, arbitrators found.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Edward Whelan of the Ethics and Public Policy Center about President-elect Trump's influence on Senate Republicans' selection of a new majority leader.

NPR's Scott Simons speaks with 17-year-old Anna Leigh Waters, a top-ranked pickleball player who is defending her title at the Pickleball World Championships in Dallas.

It's looking like 2024 will be the hottest year since record-keeping began, unseating 2023 for the top spot. Climate change is playing a role, and scientists say it was even hotter than expected.

Parsons, one of corporate America's most prominent Black executives who held top posts at Time Warner and Citigroup, was known as a skilled negotiator, a diplomat and a crisis manager.

Indian authorities have detained at least 1,500 people in India-administered Kashmir after a militant attack killed 26 people this past week, a top police officer told NPR.

The WNBA playoffs are underway with eight teams in the postseason. League officials are hoping to build off last year's record-breaking season.

Bobbys were inescapable in music in the '50s and '60s: Bobby Sherman, Bobby Rydell, Bobby Darin and more. NPR critic Bob Mondello looks back to an era when everyone seemed to share his name.

Brad Pitt stars in F1, a film about a Formula One racing team from the director of Top Gun: Maverick.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to former top FBI lawyer Andrew Weissmann about the federal indictment of John Bolton, the former National Security Adviser under President Trump during his first term.

NPR talks to Republican strategist Ron Bonjean about Trump's election success. Bonjean held top communications and strategy positions in the House and Senate.

The former rabbi of Washington, D.C.'s largest synagogue denounces starvation in Gaza, joining more than 1,000 rabbis and Jewish leaders from across the world petitioning Israel.

Voters turned out across the Tampa Bay area, motivated by high-stakes races for U.S. Senator and governor, as well as a long list of 12 constitutional…

Counting votes in Broward County has gone anything but smoothly since Election Day.

Vernice Gumbs-Crunk is making a career change. After two decades as a call center manager, the 49-year-old native of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands…

In Alaska, the coronavirus vaccine is heading to tiny villages on small planes and snow machines. The massive undertaking echoes previous efforts to get vaccines to remote corners of the state.

Steve Inskeep talks to GOP Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, about what Congress can do about mass shootings and also the chances an immigration plan will pass the Senate.

As the Atlantic hurricane season begins, there is anxiety on the small island nation of Dominica which is still reeling from Hurricane Maria that damaged or destroyed 95% of its housing.

A woman who cared for someone who survived a suicidal crisis has written a poem and song about the experience, performed by volunteers, some of whom also survived crises.

In his debut book Evolution Gone Wrong, Alex Bezzerides mixes the technical anatomical stuff we need to know with vivid examples and humorous phrases — in offering us some answers.

With just over 3% of Canadians fully inoculated against COVID-19, a growing number of America's northern border states and communities have stepped up to offer them excess doses.

Many Americans are baring their faces in public again, following the CDC recommendation that fully vaccinated people don't need them in most settings. But there are critics who say it's too soon.

President Biden is hosting key lawmakers in the Oval Office all week, hoping to forge an agreement on infrastructure.

Born in Flames was made by pioneering underground filmmaker Lizzie Borden. She vanished from screens for decades, and now her work is being rediscovered.

Seventy-five years ago, Marian Anderson made history when she sang to crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial. The Daughters of the American Revolution had denied her the use of Constitution Hall.