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Mike Pesca, host of Slate's The Gist podcast, has some opinions about how Adam Silver of the NBA and Roger Goodell of the NFL run thir respective sports leagues.

To make foods irresistible, the food industry has added sweetness in unexpected places — like bread and pasta sauce. That's helped shape our cravings but may also be coming back to bite the industry.

According to The Daily Beast, Russian intelligence agents tried to hack Sen. Claire McCaskill's, D-Mo., 2018 reelection campaign. NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Daily Beast reporter Andrew Desiderio.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with journalist Ronan Farrow about his expose in The New Yorker surrounding allegations of sexual misconduct by CBS CEO Leslie Moonves.

Trump is scheduled to visit the U.K. next week. Mayor Sadiq Khan's office says activists who want to fly the 20-foot blimp still need to get approval from police and the national air traffic service.

The current religious makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court is predominantly Jewish and Catholic. Why is that so, and how much does the religion of the justices matter?

President Trump addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Kansas City, spending much of his time reviewing his achievements as president and criticizing his predecessor. The speech came the day after his Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Robert Wilkie, was confirmed by the Senate.

The special election to replace former Republican Rep. Jo Bonner serves as a useful barometer for gauging the ferocity of opposition to the Affordable Care Act among the party faithful. In one campaign ad, a GOP candidate throws a copy of the health care law into a trash can.

The group that claimed responsibility for the attack on the mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, began as a militia fighting in Somalia. But it has evolved into an al-Qaida affiliate that views Somalia as a front in the war against the West.

The division in the Republican Party means there's no one leader on the other side that President Obama can cut a deal with — or even high-profile adversary to vilify. That's a stark contrast from other recent fiscal standoffs.