Barbara Alvarez lost her husband in 2017, just before their daughter went off to college. Her unsung hero helped her find the ...

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Reigning world champion Alysa Liu is Team USA's best shot for an Olympic medal in the figure skating final Thursday night.

Foreign tourism is the U.S. declined last year. Is it a "Trump Slump," or something else?

Cities around the country are debating whether to keep their automatic license plate readers. Concerns about privacy and federal immigration agents can access local data are driving these debates.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is in California trying to drum up support for a ballot measure asking for a tax on billionaires.

Most Olympians never win big money — or big fame. So how are athletes such as Eileen Gu or Chloe Kim able to earn millions of dollars? Here are some of the ways.

Early voting began this week in the Texas Senate Democratic primary election, and one candidate got a fundraising bump from talk show host Stephen Colbert.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a trial over allegations that social media is addictive and harmful. NPR's Leila Fadel asks Darrell West of the Brookings Institution about the case.

Wall Street leaders met at President Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club to discuss finance and technology. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Reuters reporter Michelle Conlin about the event.

NPR's Michel Martin asks professor Dorothy Roberts about her new memoir, "The Mixed Marriage Project," about her father's quest to challenge white supremacy by studying interracial couples in Chicago.

Every four years, the Winter Olympics help curling clubs in the U.S. recruit new members.