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NPR's Scott Simon talks to ESPN's Howard Bryant about the men and women's Australian Open finals and what's next for Serena Williams.

A big difference between humans and other apes is the ability to stride easily on two feet. A new analysis of fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking go back 7 million years.

Watch Joy Williams and John Paul White's swooning chemistry and stirring harmonies at the NPR Music offices.

Two weeks ago, Redstone fired Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman and board member George Abrams, both longtime confidantes.

Daniel Frye planned to propose to Lauren Williams at the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. The ring disappeared during the shuttle bus ride. A Georgia woman found it in her bag when she got home.

The Hottest State sounds like the ultimate vanity project — it's based on director Ethan Hawke's semi-autobiographical novel — but the film turns out to be an affecting story of a young man's first love.

A portrait of a dashing young sea captain often called the "Black Admiral" was supposed to be a centerpiece for an exhibition of art from the Revolutionary War era about black patriots and loyalists -- but there's a white man underneath a layer of black paint.

As Wonder Woman makes her triumphant big-screen debut this weekend, she brings something that's been missing from years of superhero films: a memorable cue.

NPR's Ed Gordon talks to legendary civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams about The Autobiography of Medgar Evers a book about her late husband, assassinated in June 1963. The influential black intellectual left behind a number of speeches, plus volumes of personall correspondence.

Adam Driver is a bus driver named Paterson in Paterson, a film set in Paterson, New Jersey, in which William Carlos Williams' epic poem "Paterson" figures largely. Keep up.

Callie Evans and Audri Williams rap about online learning and the COVID-19 pandemic from the empty halls of Monroe Comprehensive High School, backed up by mask-wearing, move-busting cheerleaders.

In The Quick and the Dead, Joy Williams fixes a gaze of cold but evocative detachment on the lives of an eclectic cast of characters living in the arid Southwest. Writer Sarah Braunstein says the surreal novel uses wit, candor and virtuosic prose to delve into "our subterranean selves."

Defensive end Mario Williams of N.C. State is the first pick. Then what? Chicago Sun-Times columnist Ron Rapoport tells Scott Simon why he thinks the NFL draft captures the imaginations of so many Americans.

The latest rankings from the Women's Tennis Association are out. Two American women sit at the top of the top four rankings for the first time since Serena and Venus Williams did back in 2010.

So many people caught the omicron variant over the winter that almost 60% of everyone in the U.S. — including most children — now have antibodies to the virus in their blood, the CDC said Tuesday.

For the first time since the team's founding, the Carolina Panthers said Wednesday that they won't hold next season's training camp at Wofford College in South Carolina. Instead, the team will hold its training camp at home in Charlotte.

Taxes get a bad reputation, but they were central to the formation of representative government, says financial historian William N. Goetzmann.

2: Novelist MICHAEL TOLKIN. He wrote the novel, "The Player," a satirical look at Hollywood which was made into a Robert Altman film. TOKIN also wrote and directed the film, "The Rapture." His newest work is a novel, "Among the Dead," (William Morrow & Co.).

Danny speaks with Dr Philip Williams, a hydrologist in San Francisco, about the dangers of building on the flood plain. He says that Californians who were flooded out this past week should take heed of the lessons learned by residents along the Mississippi river in 1993.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH CARL LEUBSDORF (LUBES-dorf), WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF OF THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS AND WILLIAM NEIKIRK (MIGH-kirk), WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, ABOUT THE TWO PRESIDENT CLINTONS: THE GREAT CONCILIATOR AND THE VETO PEN-BRANDISHER.