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NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele talk baseball playoffs and Las Vegas, America's hottest sports city.

Pacific Gas & Electric — whose equipment started some of California's deadliest wildfires — has proposed burying power lines in some at-risk areas. Local regulators have pushed back, citing costs.

Nesting season began a little over six weeks ago, and this week marks NOAA's official Sea Turtle Week. The most recent Southwest Florida numbers available are from, roughly, the end of the first week of June, and they are about the same as this time last year.

When two Colorado mountain towns considered steps to transition local homes and businesses away from fossil fuels, they ran into a powerful opponent: their local gas utility.

President Trump walked out of an interview on Sunday's "Meet the Press" after being pressed on his repeated claims that the 2020 election and last week's California primaries were "rigged."

NPR's Michel Martin asks Brody Miller of The Athletic what the future holds for LIV Golf after Saudi Arabia announced it's withdrawing its investment.

A U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly confirmed to NPR that the Pentagon has ordered some 2,000 soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division to deploy to the Middle East.

The war with Iran has split many of President Trump's supporters, but rather than criticize the policy, some of the biggest names in the MAGA movement are criticizing Trump.

Joe Kent joined Tucker Carlson to discuss his decision to step down as director of the National Counterterrorism Center and his opposition to the war in Iran.

Taking drops of a medical dye is trending in wellness and biohacking circles. Some influencers claim it boosts longevity and brain health. Scientists say the hype has gotten ahead of the research.

Teen movies like She's the He, Girls Like Girls and Leviticus are all turning tropes on their heads by centering queer characters.

Israel has approved the mobilization of 60,000 reservists.

"Seduced" at the Barbican Gallery attempts to show 2,500 years of sexuality in world art, and to explore how attitudes about what is erotic art and what is pornography have changed through the ages. It's billed as the most sexually explicit fine-art exhibition ever staged.

The planet is sort of Earth-like but much closer to its star. It has temperatures hot enough to melt and vaporize rocks — and possibly oceans of lava with clouds that rain molten rock.

Russian troops withdrew from the area around Chernobyl just days ago. But fighting continues around the nuclear plant in Zaporizhzhia.

Bettye LaVette is currently celebrating her 60th birthday, and her latest album, I've Got My Own Hell to Raise. And as she's done for four decades, she's still raising hell on the concert circuit.

Tejano singer Selena died in 1995. NPR's A Martinez talks to Maria Garcia, creator and host of the podcast Anything for Selena, about projects that will keep Selena's music alive for new generations.

Condiment company Hidden Valley created the diamond in a process that involved heating dry ranch seasoning to 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, then crushing it under 400 tons of pressure for months.

One baby was born at Advocate Christ Medical Center outside Chicago. Another at a hospital in Burlington, N.C., in Room 2. And in Salt Lake City, two different hospitals delivered babies at 2:22.

Singer, musician and folklorist Mick Moloney's new album, McNally's Row of Flats, centers on theater songs by an Irish songwriting team from the late 1800s. In those days, Vaudeville and minstrelsy were giving way to American Musical Theater in New York City.