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The National Women's Hockey League delayed its 2020 season just as the Boston Pride was set to make a championship run. Now the league is going to a bubble in Lake Placid, N.Y., for a two-week season.

Amazon could be on the verge of its first unionized warehouse in the U.S. If workers at the Alabama facility vote yes next month, they would turn a new page both for the company and the region.

The 2021 Sundance Film Festival will be mostly virtual this year. Highlights include a documentary from Questlove, a biopic about Rita Moreno and films made during the pandemic.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Samantha Artiga, director of the Kaiser Family Foundation's Racial Equity and Health Policy Program, about racial and ethnic disparities in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.

After climbing more than 1,000%, GameStop's stock price reversed course and dropped suddenly when popular stock trading platforms abruptly halted some trades.

"In light of recent events," the acting chief said, "I can unequivocally say that vast improvements to the physical security infrastructure must be made."

In announcing the hire of former Officer Joseph Mensah, Sheriff Eric Severson of Waukesha County acknowledged that "some have expressed concerns about Mr. Mensah's past uses of force."

Joined by special guests Pedrito Martinez (percussion) and Chucho Valdés (piano), the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra premieres new music by Wynton Marsalis inspired by Afro-Cuban religious practice.

A report issued by Attorney General Letitia James concluded the New York State Department of Health numbers fell short by "as much as 50%."

It's safe to say the GOP has some soul searching to do.

A primer on what you need to know about short selling as an army of amateur investors battles it out against hedge funds.

A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked President Biden's 100-day moratorium on most deportations. One man who was scheduled for deportation is tangled in the bureaucratic morass.

Novavax says its COVID-19 vaccine is 89% effective at preventing illness, according to an interim analysis of a U.K. study. But the vaccine wasn't as effective against some viral variants.

The speaker rebuked House Republicans for giving the supporter of conspiracy theories a spot on the Education Committee. Greene's views have come under fresh scrutiny this week.

Screenwriter/actress POLLY DRAPER and jazz pianist MICHAEL WOLFF have co-produced –The Tic Code.— The new film is about a mother and her son, a musical prodigy with Tourettes syndrome. The syndrome is a nervous disorder that produces uncontrollable facial tics and jerky muscular spasms, as well as causing strange noises to be emitted from those who have the disorder. POLLY DRAPER wrote the film based on the life of her husband, MICHAEL WOLFF. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW)12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

We remember British actor Sir ALEC GUINNESS who died Saturday at the age of 86. He's known to older audiences for his roles in films like –The Bridge on the River Kwai and Star Wars.

Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman, who is not seeking reelection in 2022, speaks with NPR about the future of the GOP and prospects for bipartisanship in the post-Trump era.

President Biden has signed an executive order to combat discrimination against LGBTQ people in health care, housing and education. The action is the most far-reaching of any federal protections yet.

Amesh Adalja of Johns Hopkins University says strict guidelines around how to roll out the vaccine have discouraged health care providers from giving spare doses to noneligible groups.

Some Arizona Republicans are demanding an audit of the state party's leadership election, in which Donald Trump ally Kelli Ward was reelected as party chair.