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President Trump announced he plans to close the Kennedy Center for two years for remodeling, following massive backlash after his name was added to the building.

For much of Thursday's final, it seemed Canada would refuse to relinquish the throne of Olympic women's ice hockey to this younger American squad. But the U.S. found the grit to topple them, 2-1.

When Lenny Simpson was just 5 years old, tennis great Althea Gibson handed him a tennis racket and called him "champ". That moment changed his life. He went on at age 15 to play his mentor Arthur Ashe in the U.S. Open. Lenny Simpson returned to Wilmington in 2013 and launched One Love Tennis in honor of the mentors who did so much to help him live into his potential.

AI-driven applications are creating demand for more conduits to carry internet traffic, like undersea cables that snake along the ocean floor.

Police in Arizona believe Nancy Guthrie, 84, was taken by force from her Tucson area home this weekend. So far, no suspect or person of interest has been identified.

Hat tricks have a rich history in hockey, but it didn't start there. For NPR's Word of the Week, we trace the term's some 150-year-history and why it's particularly special on the hockey rink.

In the last installment of our correspondent's journey along West Africa's rapidly expanding urban coast, we arrive in Abidjan, Ivory Coast — at the heart of a region where promise and strain collide.

Nike's battery-powered footwear system, which propels wearers forward, is part of a broader push to help humans move farther and faster.

Sculptures are sunk to the bottom of the Mediterranean sea with concrete blocks to break the nets of the trawlers that devastate marine life. They now protect miles of Tuscan coastline.

NPR's Emily Kwong speaks with Sadeqa Johnson about her new novel THE KEEPER OF LOST CHILDREN and discovering the story of mixed-race children who were left in German orphanages following World War II.