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Vice President Harris, 59, is the frontrunner to take on former President Donald Trump in November after President Biden stepped aside from the 2024 race. But she faces huge odds.

1924: Long jumper DeHart Hubbard made history as the first Black American to win an Olympic gold medal with a jump of twenty-four feet, five and a half inches. The following year, he set a new world record in Chicago with a jump of 25 feet 10 inches. A University of Michigan graduate, Hubbard was among the eight Black students in the class of 1927 and was posthumously inducted into the University of Michigan Hall of Honor in 1979. 1962: Roger Roberts became Lansing's first Black firefighter, serving for eleven years and championing diversity within the Lansing Fire Department.

Doctors say they can boost the odds donated organs will be usable by restarting blood circulation with a pump after donors are declared dead. Critics say the procedure blurs the definition of death.

Romantic comedies: they’re corny, sometimes swoon-worthy and if you pay attention to movies, they’re everywhere lately. After a long dry spell, the romantic comedy seems to be coming back into favor.

Beryl is bringing heavy rains and flooding to Texas on Monday. The long-lived tropical system first walloped the Windward Islands, Jamaica, and Mexico before threatening the United States.

Four senior House Democrats in private call said President Biden should step aside. French left coalition finishes election on top. Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud in deal with prosecutors.

Imagine a world in which your resume relies less on titles or diplomas and acts more like a passport of skills you’ve proven you have.

Some Republican-led states are going against a broader trend and restricting who can participate in primary elections, in an effort to have more ideological purity among their nominees.

Israel and Hamas are trying again this week to reach a cease-fire deal. There are some encouraging signs: Hamas appears to have shifted its position on at least one key issue.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Vali Nasr, Middle East Studies professor at Johns Hopkins University, about the election of a reformist president in Iran, and prospects for policy changes.