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Kentucky's Democratic governor is leading in the polls, despite the majority Republican state political scene. Crossover governors have become an increasingly rare phenomenon outside of Kentucky.

Spain's World Cup victory was supposed to be a moment of triumph, but it was overshadowed when the head of the country's soccer federation planted an unwanted kiss on one of the team's star players.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Amira Rose Davis, assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, about tennis player Coco Gauff's argument with a chair umpire.

Climate change appears to be making poison ivy thrive, with the plant growing faster, larger and more potent.

Saudi Arabia has been cracking down on people speaking out in tweets, and has handed out a death sentence to a man in connection with views he expressed in tweets or with retweets.

A group called Love Commandos helps couples who marry for love in India. NPR's Rough Translation podcast looks at the circumstances surrounding the group's downfall.

Florida braces for Hurricane Idalia as it prepares to make landfall. Senior leaders of the Proud Boys will be sentenced Wednesday. And an unwanted kiss may have set off a new movement in Spain.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Monika Alesnik of the Homeless Leadership Alliance of Pinellas about how the group is preparing unhoused people for the arrival of Hurricane Idalia.

At the halfway point of the more than 2,000 mile-long Appalachian Trail, hikers stop to refresh with a half gallon of ice cream. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 5, 2023.)

Enrique Tarrio, the former national chairman of the Proud Boys convicted for seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, will now be sentenced next week.