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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with sports correspondent Tom Goldman about the big sports stories of the week.

As India is facing major tensions over a new law Muslims say discriminates against them, NRP's Scott Simon notes the country's history of rich religious diversity.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with three people from Denmark, S.C., who say the water there is making residents sick: Deanna Miller Berry, Eugene Smith and Paula Brown.

Columbia, S.C., Mayor Stephen Benjamin has endorsed former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Benjamin tells NPR's Michel Martin why he's supporting a candidate who's not on the ballot in his state.

Hong Kong has avoided large-scale outbreaks. But that containment has come at a significant cost to the city.

A new documentary looks at America's struggle to send its first black astronaut into space. "It would've been fantastic if we saw Ed Dwight walking on the moon," says black astronaut Robert Satcher.

Refugees have been streaming across the border from Turkey into Greece where migrant camps are already stretched. The Greek prime minister has announced he's freezing asylum applications.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Diaa Hadid and Roya Rahmani, Afghanistan's ambassador to the U.S., about the historic peace agreement signed between the U.S. and the Taliban over the weekend.

Scientists discovered a colorless, eyeless creature which dwells in metallic environments deep in the northern Pacific Ocean. Naturally, they named it after the band Metallica.

Dusty Rhoades obtained a baby alligator at a flea market 25 years ago. Officials learned the gator, now 5 feet long, was living in the basement. Rhoades had no exotic animal permit so it had to go.