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Howard Bryant of ESPN.com is at the Wimbledon tennis championships and tells NPR's Scott Simon about what he's seen so far.

Bark beetles are common across the Western US. They’re tiny insects that burrow into the bark of pine trees to lay their eggs, often killing the tree in the process. They can also spread across huge areas of woodland. One way to mitigate beetle outbreaks is through prescribed burns. But as KSJD’s Lucas Brady Woods reports, the drought conditions fueling their spread aren’t so easy to address.

For students in the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District, this week was the first week of classes after the winter holidays. And this semester, there’s a big change. Classes are now on a four-day week. It's a necessary move to support short-staffed and over-worked teachers. But as KSJD News reports, it's just one step in addressing the district's continuing teacher shortage.

The U.S. military is spending tens of millions of dollars to test every service member's brain to find out who suffered a traumatic brain injury during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. But an investigation by NPR and ProPublica has found that military leaders are refusing to carry out the testing program.

Unlike airlines, hospitals don't offer perks or first class upgrades to people who frequently visit the emergency room. In fact, patients like these often get worse customer service, like the apocryphal boy who cried, "Wolf!"

Unlike other National Park Service properties, the clock tower above the Trump International Hotel is open and staffed by park rangers. Government officials insist the arrangement is aboveboard.

Little Spring Hill, Tenn., stands among the country's biggest cities at the new frontier of library services. Available for checkout here are Wi-Fi hot spots, leased to patrons for free.

The White House says three American service members were killed and 25 wounded in a drone attack on a remote military base in Jordan. An Iranian-backed militia group has claimed responsibility.

Less than a year after the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the Pentagon holds an LGBT pride month. Advocacy groups say the transition from institutionalized homophobia to equal treatment is going well, but a bureaucracy of regulations still place gay service members and their partners at a disadvantage.

In-store purchases on Black Friday fell this year, but online sales have seen a big increase. Easy comparison shopping and widespread free shipping have sweetened the deal for many online shoppers.