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The theme of day three of the GOP Convention in Cleveland is "Make America First Again." Before World War II, the "America First Committee" focused on keeping the U.S. out of the conflict raging in Europe.

Commentator Diana Nyad recently spent two weeks at Wimbledon. She has these thoughts on what sets that tournament above other tennis grand slams: French Open, Australian Open and U.S. Open.

The Trump administration has canceled an agreement that would have allowed Cuban baseball players in the U.S. without having to defect first. Officials say the agreement was illegal.

A redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report investigating Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election was released Thursday.

By signing a new charter for the Commonwealth states, Her Majesty is royally endorsing equal rights. One possible outcome of her support: If Prince William and Kate have a girl, she may well be queen someday.

State officials in Illinois want to conduct DNA tests on the top hat on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum to see if he ever really wore it. Museum officials think the idea is worse than bad.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex say they will split their time between the U.K. and North America. Buckingham Palace was reportedly not given advance notice of the decision.

Many of sports history's greatest athletes never led their teams to a championship victory. So why should it be a requirement for basketball stars today?

When people talk about Taxmageddon, most are thinking of the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts. But there's another little known tax change that could hit 25 million Americans. The modern AMT was created in the 1980s but it wasn't indexed to inflation.

Courts have ruled that civilians have a constitutional right to videotape police encounters in public. But civilians are not allowed to interfere with police activity.

"What's in a name?" William Shakespeare once wrote in Romeo and Juliet, long before the Olympics ever came to London. It turns out that some Olympic names herald the greatness athletes seek — and the events they enter — while some bear monikers better suited for others.

The Mars rover Curiosity is exploring the surface of the Red Planet in the Gale Crater, and it is also tweeting about its mission. The rover has a distinct personality, albeit one made by the strokes on a keyboard from the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif.

http://66.225.205.104/KM20120803.mp3As of this afternoon, the U.S. is second in the Olympic medals ranking, right behind China. But how is North Carolina…

The judging of Round 9 of Three-Minute Fiction continues. NPR's Susan Stamberg reads an excerpt from one of the favorites so far, A Day in the Sun, by Rita Bourland of Columbus, Ohio. You can read the full story below and find other stories at npr.org/threeminutefiction.

In northern Lebanon, sweeping buildings designed by renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer remind people of more peaceful times. (This story first aired on May 26, 20015 on All Things Considered.)

Does it grate on your ears if you're offered a "free gift?" Would you have a "sudden impulse" to correct that grammar? Pleonasms have unnecessary, superfluous words. Tell us about the ones you hear.

A shortage of tens of thousands of drivers is affecting McDonald's and many other businesses after scores of European truckers left the U.K. in the aftermath of Brexit.

We rebroadcast another episode of our American Popular Song Series; this one will profile composer JEROME KERN. He wrote the songs "All the Things You are," "Can't Help Lovin' That Man," "I'm Old-Fashioned," "Ol' Man River," and "The Way You Look Tonight." A number of those songs are from the broadway musical "Showboat" which he wrote. We'll focus on the music he wrote before then, before 1927. Terry will talk with JOHN MCGLINN, an authority on Kern, and we'll hear performances by: REBECCA LUKER, who is currently starring in the broadway revival of "The Music Man", and who also starred in the revivals of "Showboat" and the "Sound of Music," GEORGE DVORSKY who sang leading roles in the New York City Opera's productions of "Cinderella" and Brigadoon." They'll be accompanied by WILLIAM HICKS, assistant conductor and assistant chorus master at the Metropolitan Opera. Original broadcast: 11/01/99 (THESE INTERVIEWS AND PERFORMANCES CONTINUE THRU THE END OF THE SHOW).12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:30:00...

Mounting debt, concentrated poverty and a political fight have nudged its school system to the brink of insolvency. With nowhere else to cut, district officials voided the teachers' union contract.

Michigan wants to remain a center of automotive development and manufacturing. As the state faces interstate competition, political leaders are looking to industry incentives.