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One of the world's top female wrestlers is featured in this week's installment of the Weekend Edition Sunday summer reading series. Toccara Montgomery will compete in Athens in the 72-kilogram weight division. She talked about books with NPR's Liane Hansen before leaving for the Summer Games.

Produced by Sturgill Simpson, Margo Price's That's How Rumors Get Started comes out May 8.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police reports show crimes reported at Harding University High School have more than quadrupled over the past year. WCNC video: "The…

Tuesday's primaries were pretty good for incumbents — although Rep. John Sullivan, R-0kla., was defeated by a Tea Party-backed challenger.

A new video provides a perfect match for Saintseneca's mystery, beauty and undercurrent of deep weirdness.

The impeachment managers and the former president's defense team agreed to enter a statement from GOP Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler into evidence instead of calling her as a witness.

He's made his list and checked it twice: critic Alan Cheuse recommends the best books to give as gifts in 2011. This year, it's mostly fiction — books that will light up dark winter nights with warm stories, large characters and beautiful language.

Nancy Pearl had a hard time compiling a short list of her favorite science fiction and fantasy books. There are too many good ones, she says. But one title seemed a natural to the Seattle librarian: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians.

Three guys from Dartmouth stumbled into a dance class looking for easy credits and twenty-five years later they're running one of the most successful modern dance companies in the world. Pilobolus Dance Theatre is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. What's remarkable is that it's managed to stay together that long with FOUR artistic directors (with the exception of one, the same four for all 25 years)...and it's managed to do it without subsidies or wealthy patrons. Pilobolus derives 80 to 90 percent of its annual budget from ticket sales...and it's managed to do that while presenting very challenging modern dance (Pilobolus was one of the pioneers of nudity in modern dance) with a sense of humor. Charlene Scott, of member station W-F-C-R, visited the company at its home in rural Connecticut.

Marva Whitney, who sang with the James Brown Revue in the late '60s and early '70s, took three decades to release a new album. Her new cover of Brenda Holloway's "Every Little Bit Hurts" hints at a rebuke of a music industry that turned its back on her when she and Brown parted ways.

The Senate Intelligence Committee grills Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, the president's nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency. Much of the questioning centered on Hayden's role in designing two controversial National Security Agency programs, as well as intelligence concerns.

Totenberg looks back on her decades-long friendship with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Kevin Whitehead reviews the new album from the Free Form Funky Freqs. Ralph plays a veteran teacher on Abbott.

At first, The xx's "Crystalised" resembles an undercooked demo, as singer-guitarist Romy Croft and guitarist Baria Qureshi strum gloomy notes over muted, rumbling drums. But then the group glides into the chorus and the sudden shift to a bright, melodic key feels jarring in the best sense possible. It's like looking at one of those Magic Eye paintings: Suddenly, everything comes into focus.

Thursday, Aug. 15, is International Apostrophe Day. It couldn’t have come at a more perfect time. amid confusion over the possessive name of the Democratic candidates for president and vice president.

Among the topics that came up: her stance on an electronic surveillance program, her push to drop charges against Edward Snowden and her 2017 meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The Carolina Hurricanes are on the brink of elimination in the Stanley Cup playoff series. Big changes are in store for men's basketball at Duke University. And a local university makes its first college World Series.

If you look at it broadly, the country music scene can appear frustratingly stagnant, with little growth for women and trailblazers. But from every corner, a rising generation is making progress.

Locals in Syria's Golan Heights told NPR that they fear a recent Israeli military operation in the area could be a land grab. Israel says the move is necessary to secure its borders.

Historically, white college-educated voters support Republicans, but they seem to be leaving Donald Trump. The demographic is pushing Colorado from a battleground state more toward the Democrats side.

Disillusionment with British Prime Minister Johnson's handling of the pandemic and Brexit has driven a majority of Scottish people to consistently support independence for the first time in decades.