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  • In NCAA Finals, Two Recent Champions On Unlikely Rides
    The Kentucky Wildcats and the Connecticut Huskies take the court in Monday's NCAA men's college basketball final. NPR's Tom Goldman talks to Melissa Block about what to watch for in the game.
  • American doubles team Mike Bryan (top) and Bob Bryan celebrate after defeating France's Michael Llodra and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the men's doubles gold medal match of the London 2012 Olympic Games, at the All England Tennis Club.
    Bryan Brothers Win Doubles Gold At London Olympics
    The U.S. men's doubles team of Bob and Mike Bryan won their first Olympic gold medal Saturday, beating France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Michael Llodra, 6-1, 7-6 (6-2), in a game that was far more entertaining than its score might suggest.
  • Carlos Leveron, 38, left El Salvador in 1999 and came to California to support his family. He holds pictures of his son Freddy David, 18, and his daughter Marta Elsie, 19. He has not seen either in 16 years, but a new U.S. program has raised the possibility that they will be able to move to the U.S.
    A Father In California, Kids In El Salvador, And New Hope To Reunite
    Unaccompanied minors surged across the U.S. southern border last year, fleeing violence in Central America. This year the Obama administration hopes to forestall a new wave with a quiet new program.
  • Close Read: Reviewing State Of The Union Address
    Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep and NPR reporters give a "close read" of President Obama's State of the Union speech. In some cases they are checking facts. In others, they are asking what some parts of the speech really mean.
  • Totenberg teaches student Letitia Hom in his classroom at Boston University. Totenberg made his debut as a soloist with the Warsaw Philharmonic at age 11.
    Roman Totenberg's Remarkable Life And Death
    When he died on Tuesday at 101, Roman Totenberg left behind a professional career as a world-renowned concert violinist and teacher that spanned nine decades and four continents. His daughter, NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg, has this remembrance.
  • Qian Yang of China celebrates after winning the gold medal in the women's 10-meter air rifle at the Asaka Shooting Range in the 2020 Summer Olympics on Saturday.
    The First Gold Medal Of The Tokyo Olympics Goes To China
    A 21-year-old woman from China came out on top in the 10-meter air rifle competition. Qian Yang narrowly beat out a competitor from Russia and beamed as she held up her gold medal.
  • Detail from the cover of Brian Wilson's Smile.
    Rock Critic Ken Tucker: Best Pop of 2004
    Rock critic Ken Tucker gives us his top picks in pop for 2004. He runs down his 10 best albums, and then talks about some trends of 2004, such as the return of punk, the year of the hip-hop producer, crunk music, and the potential end of an era as iPods and single song downloads replace album purchases. Ken Tucker is also a film critic for New York magazine.
  • The Milwaukee Bucks' Bob Lanier (16) moves for the basket as Philadelphia 76ers Darryl Dawkins defends during an NBA playoff game on April 13, 1981, in Milwaukee. Lanier died on Tuesday at age 73.
    NBA Hall of Famer Bob Lanier dies at 73
    The eight-time All-Star, who muscled up beside the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as one of the NBA's top players of the 1970s, died Tuesday. Lanier had worked for the league as a global ambassador.
  • Items FBI agents say were inside a backpack recovered from a landfill in New Bedford. Investigators say the backpack was thrown in the trash by friends of Tsarnaev.
    Boston Police: Three More Individuals In Custody
    Authorities say they'll soon release more information about the individuals and how they may be connected to the two main suspects in the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon. Law enforcement sources say at least two of the three may have misled the FBI and disposed of some potential evidence.
  • The U.S. and Romanian rugby teams battle during the 1924 Olympics in Paris. The U.S. won the gold, defeating the heavily favored French. After that, rugby was tossed out of the Olympics for 92 years, returning just this year in Rio.
    U.S. Rugby Team Defends Its Gold — From 1924
    The American rugby squad was mostly made up of football players and was a big underdog against the French. But the Americans took gold in 1924, and have been the reigning Olympic champions ever since.
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