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In baseball this year, says NPR's Mike Pesca, there's very little correlation between spending and winning. Pesca speaks with host Rachel Martin.

James Salter is a master prose stylist whose deceptively simple sentences reveal the sensations and truth of experience. In All That Is, he conjures the life and times of Philip Bowman, who, returning to New York after World War II, pursues love and a publishing career, with unequal success.

Leonard A. Lauder's collection — among the best in the world, experts say — consists of 78 cubist works, including 33 works by Picasso.

One of the oldest billboards in American advertising is getting an update. The Goodyear blimp has been used for company promotions since 1925. A new model is being assembled in Akron, Ohio, by a crew from Goodyear and the German company Zeppelin.

The housing recovery is well on its way, economists say, and Americans are becoming more comfortable spending on things like remodeling, moving, gardening and furniture. One economist expects increased housing wealth to boost consumer spending by $100 billion this year.

In the ongoing debate about the possible benefits of vitamin D supplements, a study suggests that the vitamin might indeed play a role in mildly reducing high blood pressure. The study was small and looked at just African-Americans, but the authors say the findings warrant further research.

North Korea says it will restart a nuclear reactor that it shut down six years ago. Pyongyang said it needs to resolve an acute electricity shortage, as well as bolster what it called its nuclear armed force. The move is a further escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula after a series of North Korean threats.

The No. 4 mobile phone carrier is making changes that it hopes will draw more customers to it. To find out more about T-mobile's new pricing strategy, David Greene talks to Rich Jaroslovsky, the technology commentator for Bloomberg News.

Imbolo Mbue's debut novel is one of the best books to deal with the financial crisis of 2007-2008. It's the story of a Cameroonian immigrant couple and the rich, troubled Americans they work for.

Researchers at the University of Washington are hoping to answer that question. NPR's Scott Simon talks to biology and pathology professor Daniel Promislow about the Dog Aging Project.

Magic Mountain in Southern California has a roller coaster in which riders put on VR goggles to see an imagined world while their bodies undergo the physical thrills. How is it? We get a review.

Donald Trump's presidential campaign hasn't spent a single dollar on television advertising in the general election. Experts say this is an unprecedented decision to disregard the most effective way to communicate with voters.

Men's soccer in Brazil has always reigned supreme. Women were actually banned from playing in the country for decades. But the success of the women's team at the Rio Olympics is changing the narrative.

2015 was a year of mega-mergers — deals made because of falling commodity prices, and deals that came with big tax advantages. NPR looks back at the year in mergers.

With Ted Cruz and Donald Trump racing for first place in next month's primary, Bush and Rubio are vying for third, which would give them momentum going in to the New Hampshire primary.

As candidates kick off the final month before primaries and caucuses, NPR's Rachel Martin checks in with political correspondent Sarah McCammon. She's just off the campaign trail in all-important Iowa.

Egypt's Al Azhar is a center of Sunni scholarship and is seen as a possible counter to the ideology espoused by ISIS. But its message is undermined by its close relationship with a Western-backed Egyptian regime that crushes dissent.

There were 62 murders in Charlotte last year, a big increase from 2014. Meanwhile, the new year already has seen its first homicide, a fatal shooting off…

On Friday, Iran's centrist President Hassan Rouhani stands for a second term in office, facing a hard line cleric most Iranians know little about. Ebrahim Raisi has highlighted economic, not religious, arguments to garner support.

Fatalities have been reported after an explosion at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. 'Everyone just fled," says one concertgoer. "People were just running all over the place."