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Actress Cynthia Nixon announced her run for New York governor against incumbent Andrew Cuomo. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Brigid Bergin, politics reporter at WNYC, about the September primaries.

The NCAA men's tournament is down to eight teams, and baseball makes an unexpected entry in the omnibus spending bill.

Scientists says to help whales, the ropes used to tend lobster traps must be changed or eliminated. Mainers who catch lobster for a living feel they're being singled out for an international problem.

On the day the Austin bomber killed himself, the city's acting police chief described him as a "challenged young man" — not a terrorist. That designation didn't sit well with people of color.

Days after their release, Muhammadu Buhari told the girls seized in the Feb. 19 mass abduction by an ISIS-affiliated faction of Boko Haram to embrace the future and pursue their dreams, without fear.

Wealthy residents of the South African city are coping with the drought by drilling bore holes into the aquifer. But compliance with water restrictions may have put off the day when the taps run dry.

Villanova and Kansas, both top seeds, will face each other while No. 11 Loyola-Chicago will play No. 3 Michigan on Saturday in the semifinals in San Antonio, Texas.

Protests continued through the weekend over the death of 22-year-old Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, who was shot and killed by two police officers in Sacramento, Calif.

For two years Mike Hughes worked on a rocket. His goal was to prove the earth was flat. Over the weekend, he got a third of a mile into the air and then fell back to earth. The rocket had a parachute.

Is there any other way besides tariffs — and potentially a trade war — to get China to play fair on trade? David Greene talks to former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers for his insight.