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The far-right Alternative for Germany party is leading the polls ahead of state elections. A group called "Grandmas Against the Far-Right" is trying to get German voters to shun the AfD party.

American Ryan Crouser has turned the shot put into a science. As he goes for his third Olympic gold in a row, he keeps tweaking ideas of rotation, radius and speed and utilizes computer mechanics.

Democrats believe they have an opportunity to make inroads with an important voting bloc in swing state Arizona: Latinos.

The Olympic Games almost always comes with a substantial financial burden for a host city. But are cost-benefit analysts too simplistic for how we evaluate their impact?

"Tested" from NPR’s podcast Embedded and CBC in Canada examines the 100-year history of the practice of sex testing female athletes in elite sports.

Before any public office, Kamala Harris went to Washington, D.C., to study at Howard University. Jill Louis, class of '87, joined Alpha Kappa Alpha at the same time as Harris.

NPR’S Ailsa Chang talks with former Israeli diplomat Alon Pinkas, about whether Israel might be provoking an escalation in the Middle East that could drag the U.S. into conflict.

Black farmers got $2 billion in USDA payments to address discrimination in farm loans. For decades, Black farmers and others have argued that they’ve been left behind by the USDA’s lending programs.

The Justice Department has sued TikTok over violating children's privacy. It’s the latest legal trouble for the Chinese-owned video app.

The Pentagon is increasingly concerned about cooperation between Russia and China in the vast, inhospitable Arctic. A new strategy is aimed at countering that.