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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Adm. Mike Mullen, ex-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about the ships which Russia insists are part of pre-planned naval exercises. Is there more to it than that?

Guinness World Records lists Ye Olde Fighting Cocks as Britain's oldest pub. It's closing because of financial issues brought on by the pandemic. Owners say the pub could reopen under new management.

With the help of his mom, Dana Boone created the Periodic Table of Black History. Rather than elements, this table contains 90 Black history-makers, activists and innovators.

Audio cassette tapes are selling well — even though they don't sound very good and they are not as retro cool as vinyl records.

No-knock warrants have been in steep decline since the height of the war on drugs, but the killing of a Black man in Minneapolis has raised questions about why police still insisted on the tactic.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Annette Anderson of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy schools, about the implications as several states start rolling back mask mandates in schools.

While the statewide mask mandate will end for vaccinated residents, that doesn't mean everyone in the state will be able to remove their masks indoors — even if they've gotten the shots.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Yannick Kluch, an expert on diversity and inclusion in sports, about Rule 50 of the Olympic charter that prohibits demonstrations during the Games.

For a second time, Mikaela Shiffrin did not finish a qualifying run. This time in her signature event: the women's slalom. This follows her fall in the giant slalom on Monday.

The Interior Department ordered a review of tribal jail deaths, but the man who got the contract is a former agency official who oversaw the jails when some of the deaths occurred.