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Only three days remain before the Olympic Games begin. They're billed as the world's greatest sporting event. But residents of the host city have been grumbling so much about the games that the mayor of London has told them all to "put a sock in it." Still, the protests and complaints continue.

The creators of Harry Potter and the Sacred Text are launching a podcast about romance novels. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Vanessa Zoltan, host and producer of the upcoming podcast Hot & Bothered.

Melinda Haring, the outgoing deputy director of the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, explains to NPR's Elissa Nadworny what to expect from the Russia-Ukraine war in 2023.

For two soccer-crazed nations, just one question remains: Will the U.S. continue its march of greatness undaunted, or can the Dutch pull off an upset for the ages?

Sports fans have gotten used to exorbitant prices for food and drinks at stadiums. They know they're a captive market. But could the stadiums be missing out by charging too much?

Presidential polls are starting to shift to show the race between President Obama and GOP rival Mitt Romney tightening even further, and in some cases, Romney is ahead for the first time. Steve Inskeep talks to David Axelrod, Obama's senior campaign adviser, about the shifts in the race, and the president's strategy with less than a month to go before the election.

In the dawning of the digital age, "She was the unlucky one to be having a nervous breakdown in public at the time," Amy director Asif Kapadia tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.

La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos rechazó de plano al estado de Utah en su afán de hacer que la Oficina de la Administración de Tierras renuncie su control sobre los terrenos públicos en el estado. Y, salieron dos encuestas el martes 14 que indican un gran apoyo entre el público por algunos monumentos nacionales que podrían estar en la mira de la administración de Trump.

A chance encounter with a little girl in an ice cream store inspired R.J. Palacio to write a novel about a boy born with distorted facial features. She says it got her thinking about what it's like to "have to face a world every day that doesn't know how to face you back."

The Number of the Week is: 80,000. That's how many are protesting in Hong Kong, according to organizers. But data journalist Mona Chalabi says estimating crowd size isn't an exact science.