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Over two weeks, critic Linda Holmes watched every Olympic discipline, from archery to wrestling. Above, Manon Brunet of Team France, left, competes against Olga Nikitina of Team ROC during the Women's Sabre Team Fencing Gold Medal Match on day eight of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

What I Learned From Watching Every Sport At The Tokyo Olympics

Over two weeks, critic Linda Holmes watched every Olympic discipline, from archery to wrestling. Fast sports, slow sports, graceful sports and hard crashes. As it turned out, they're all beautiful.

Tianna Spears joined the State Department in 2018, looking forward to the promise of a fulfilling career. She left after less than two years, and is one of a growing number to speak out recently about the special challenges faced by minority foreign service officers.

'I Was Asked If I Stole My Car': Black Diplomats Describe Harassment At U.S. Borders

Former diplomat Tianna Spears says she was pulled aside 20-plus times crossing from Mexico into the U.S. "One time, I was told not to look at the officer in the eyes when I spoke to him," she says.

Protests break out at Texas ICE facility over detention of 5-year-old Minnesota boy

Protesters marched to the South Texas Family Residential Center Wednesday to demand the release of a 5-year-old boy and his father who were taken into ICE custody in Minnesota.

Comedian Louis C.K. Facing Sexual Misconduct Allegations From 5 Women

Comedian Louis C.K. built his career lambasting men and male hypocrisy. Now, he's being accused of sexual misconduct by several women, in incidents that happened over ten years ago. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with New York Times reporter Cara Buckley who worked on the story.

Caribou is otherwise known as songwriter and producer Dan Snaith.

Caribou Returns With First New Music In 5 Years

The soulful new track, "Home," is built around vintage horns and a sample from R&B singer Gloria Barnes' track of the same name.

Sean Harrington wants to grow the bar he owns, which could employ more people, but he says the high commercial taxes are standing in the way.

On The Road To Recovery, Detroit's Property Taxes Aren't Helping

Even with cheap rent, the cost of doing business is high. With the nation's highest commercial property taxes, one business mogul says this stunts entrepreneurship in a city that needs more jobs.

A mathematician's sweet dream: For about $10,000, you can print out rainbow sugar dodecahedrons and interlocking cubes.

Spinach Dinosaurs To Sugar Diamonds: 3-D Printers Hit The Kitchen

Pizza printed up for dinner? Or how about an edible photograph for your next birthday cake? The first restaurant-grade approved 3-D printer was unveiled last week, and the gadget can churn out candies in any shape imaginable. Other printers in the works make custom-shaped pastas and assemble ravioli and gnocchi.

Statuary Hall as seen in 2015. A group of senators are introducing a new effort to increase the number of statues of women in the halls of the U.S. Capitol.

All But 5% Of U.S. Capitol Sculptures Are Of Men. Some Senators Want To Change That

Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar and a group of bipartisan lawmakers are unveiling legislation to ramp up art featuring women at the U.S. Capitol.

A Mexican guard at a prison in Tijuana where 17 men are being held on charges they were digging a drug-smuggling tunnel from Tijuana to the U.S. border at San Diego. The men say they were kidnapped and forced to do the work.

Tijuana Prisoner: I Was Forced To Dig Drug Tunnel To San Diego

The Mexican man says he was one of 17 kidnapped by a cartel and forced to build drug-smuggling tunnels. Now he might be in prison for the rest of his life.

Pastor T.L. Barrett rewrote the rules of gospel in the 1970s and '80s.

Pastor T.L. Barrett's Five Decades Spent As A Current For Our Sails

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with gospel artist Pastor T.L. Barrett, Jr., whose collected work was recently reissued in a box set called I Shall Wear a Crown.

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