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Kelsey Snell talks with HBO's Jon Frankel about the explosion of legal sports gambling and the professional leagues' embrace of it.

Daniel Estrin discovered while reporting from Ukraine that the current geopolitical drama touches his family's history in unexpected ways.

Who gets to play for a country's national team at the Winter Olympics is an especially complicated question in China, where issues of identity, ethnicity, and citizenship are at stake.

Researchers looking into the decline of Steller sea lions over the last decade noticed that the concentration of mercury levels in lion pups was increasing in some parts of the Aleutian Islands — but they didn’t know why. Now, a group of scientists from around the nation are working to solve that mystery with a research project called Aleutian Mercury Dynamics. The project’s goal is to create a timeline to see mercury levels in the Aleutian Islands over the last few thousand years.

A fishing vessel ran aground in Unalaska Saturday morning. The 92-foot Kevleen K hit rocks near Little South America just before 10 a.m., according to port officials. The boat was pulled off the rocks by the F/V Amatuli about an hour later.

President Biden spoke to his Russian counterpart today amid increasing tensions over Ukraine.

Patti Smith is a cultural icon; a musician, writer and poet who helped shape the counterculture of the '70s. She does it all, but can she answer our questions about burger makers, AKA Patty Smiths?

Scott Simon talks with Alejandro Zambra about his new novel, "Chilean Poet," which follows the lives and loves of two would-be poets in Santiago.

The mental stress of restaurant work has intensified during the pandemic. To retain staff, restaurant owners in Colorado have hired a therapist for its waiters, cooks and others to consult for free.

Former Republican governor Sarah Palin is suing the New York Times for defamation over an editorial that alleged wrongdoing by her political action committee. Closing arguments wrapped up Friday.