Natalie Nakase is 1st Asian American WNBA head coach and unfazed by being the face of the Valkyries
Natalie Nakase is the coach of the San Francisco Bay Area’s first WNBA team and she has learned to block out those who underestimated her.
Sunoco buys Canadian gas and convenience store chain Parkland for about $9.1 billion
Sunoco is buying Canada’s gas station and convenience store chain Parkland in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $9.1 billion, expanding its footprint north of the border.
A Soviet probe orbiting Earth since 1972 will soon reenter the planet’s atmosphere
Kosmos 482 has been orbiting the Earth for decades. It's still unknown if the craft will fall to Earth intact or burn up upon atmospheric reentry.
Trump, in a new interview, says he doesn’t know if he backs due process rights
President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he doesn't know whether U.S. citizens…
In Cameroon’s civil war, spoken-word poets speak the unspeakable
Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.
Sovereignty beats out favorite Journalism to win the Kentucky Derby
The victory hands Venezuelan jockey Junior Alvarado his first career win in the Kentucky Derby. Sovereignty's trainer, Bill Mott, has won the Kentucky Derby once before.
A telescope’s powerful new tool may offer a better way to predict solar storms
The Daniel K. Inouye telescope snapped a clear image of sunspots.
Connor Hellebuyck and the Jets host the Blues in Game 7 of their 1st-round NHL playoff series
The first round of the NHL playoff concludes with Game 7 between the regular-season league-best Winnipeg Jets and the Western Conference eighth-seeded St. Louis Blues.
Saturday Sports: NBA playoffs, a coaching great retires
NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant discuss the NBA playoffs and the retirement of one of the league's greatest coaches.
Opinion: Curse other drivers? So do the pros — but they get fined
Formula 1 racing has a ban on cursing, with fines starting at about $46,000. NPR's Scott Simon explains why drivers are darn unhappy with that.