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NR's Steve Inskeep gets an update from NPR's Becky Sullivan, who's in France, about what to watch for in the Games.

The once-mighty U.S. Olympic swim team has only won two gold medals so far at the Paris Games. Athletes say the sport has grown more competitive since Americans like Michael Phelps owned the pool.

NPR's A Martínez asks veteran political analyst and pollster Frank Luntz how Kamala Harris' entry into the presidential race might affect the fight for control of Congress.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about the ramifications of the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

1911: The New York Stock Exchange listed General Motors Securities, marking a significant expansion for Detroit's burgeoning automotive industry. In a separate historic event, the Treaty with the Ottawa and Chippewa was signed in 1855, establishing land reserves and providing pensions for tribal veterans, guided by Andrew Jackson Blackbird, son of a chief who straddled both Ottawan traditions and Western education at what later became Eastern Michigan University.

Former President Donald Trump thumps Vice President Harris in name recognition, but analysts say Beijing sees both as bad news.

A lot of major news stories happened this week. We review some of them.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Errin Haines, of the nonprofit newsroom The 19th, about former President Trump's decision to speak to the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention.

Now that Vice President Harris is the likely Democratic presidential nominee versus former President Donald Trump, the map of competitive states in the election is a repeat of the 2020 battlegrounds.

In 1994 on the National Mall, thousands of American teens pledged abstinence until marriage. The movement it created has influenced sex education in schools to this day.