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NPR's Scott Simon remembers Ina Jaffe, who first edited this program and later reported on seniors for NPR. Jaffe died this week at the age of 75.

Léon Marchand entered the Paris Summer Games with no gold medals. He now has claimed four gold - while shattering four Olympic records - and has emerged as a national French icon.

The parties in lawsuits seeking damages for last year's Maui wildfires have reached a $4 billion global settlement, a court filing said Friday.

The previous agreements exchanged guilty pleas from the men for sentences of at most, life in prison.

Our friends at NPR Music bring us their weekly roundup of new music from this week, including a song from Khalid's new album, Sincere.

The far-right Alternative for Germany party is leading the polls ahead of state elections. A group called "Grandmas Against the Far-Right" is trying to get German voters to shun the AfD party.

The Olympic Games almost always comes with a substantial financial burden for a host city. But are cost-benefit analysts too simplistic for how we evaluate their impact?

"Tested" from NPR’s podcast Embedded and CBC in Canada examines the 100-year history of the practice of sex testing female athletes in elite sports.

Before any public office, Kamala Harris went to Washington, D.C., to study at Howard University. Jill Louis, class of '87, joined Alpha Kappa Alpha at the same time as Harris.

The U.S. swim team entered Paris confident after a strong showing in national trials. But the American team's stars struggled again on Friday night as swimmers from Australia and France dominated.