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NPR's Scott Simon and Howard Bryant of ESPN.com talk about tennis, and the legacy of Serena and Venus Williams. The two faced off in the Australian Open.

With summer temperatures hovering around 100 degrees Fahrenheit, residents of Lahore, Pakistan, visit a winter-themed park to cool off. (Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on Aug. 6, 2023.)

NPR's Sarah McCammon talks to professor Scott Cumming of UCLA School of Law, about John Eastman asking a judge to postpone his disbarment proceedings in case he's indicted with the former president.

Still, Laurie Frankel says, her book is fiction. "The nice thing about my life is that it's pretty boring, which is really how you want your life to be — but not how you want your novel to be."

President Obama used his second prime-time news conference to make the case for his economic agenda Tuesday night. But lawmakers are already making big changes to Obama's budget proposal.

Voters are participating Tuesday in primary elections in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia — they're being called the "Potomac Primaries." Better-than-average turnout is expected in Virginia and Maryland, with waits of up to 45 minutes in some areas.

Stocks are down sharply after the House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. At one point, the Dow Jones industrial average was down more than 700 points.

New government data released Thursday showed an economy that is growing again for the first time in a year. But the economy is receiving much support right now, and no one knows whether it is capable of growing on its own.

FBI agents fanned out across northern New Jersey today and made arrests in a corruption investigation that includes two mayors. Officials say politics and religion were used to cloak crimes and enrich the suspects.

An economic rule of thumb has been that lowering the inflation rate leads to higher unemployment. But that has been weakening lately. (This story first aired on Morning Edition on September 6, 2023.)