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Sports journalist Julie DiCaro tells NPR's Michel Martin about her new book, Sidelined: Sports, Culture and Being a Woman in America.

Tokyo organizers on Saturday announced that foreign spectators will be barred from attending this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games due to concerns over COVID-19.

A year after the closure of the U.S.-Canada border, cross-border families appeal to authorities to lift restrictions brought on by the pandemic.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Andrew Capen, who received a double lung transplant after becoming severely ill with COVID-19.

Recent assaults on Asian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area have sparked debates within the community around policing. Divisions over how to keep people safe are falling along generational lines.

If we want life to get back to normal in the U.S., public health experts say we can't just rely on COVID-19 vaccines. Other tools like contact tracing and care coordination are crucial too.

U.S. prosecutors say President Juan Orlando Hernández enabled drug trafficking into the U.S., and Democratic lawmakers want punishment. It comes as President Biden seeks Central American aid.

Hiroshi Sasaki resigned as the director of the opening and closing Olympic ceremonies after it was revealed that he had suggested that a female comedian should appear as an "Olympig."

NPR tours the factory of the world's largest vaccine maker: Serum Institute of India. It's manufacturing nearly 100 million doses a month of the Oxford-AstraZeneca formula and exporting them globally.

More than half of the wastewater injected in Ohio comes from other states.