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King Richard tells how Richard Williams doggedly pursued professional tennis careers for his daughters, Venus and Serena. His methods may have kept them from the burnout that ends many careers.

As more lawsuits are filed in the aftermath of Friday's rap concert in Houston, questions continue to surface about what happened and why. Eight people were crushed and dozens more injured.

For the first time more than 100,000 people have died from a drug overdose in a 12-month period. Experts say the rise is driven by the pandemic and by fentanyl and methamphetamines brought to the U.S.

The infrastructure law includes money for capturing carbon from power plants and removing it from the air. Scientists say such technologies are crucial to avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.

Kevin Goodan used to be a U.S. Forest Service firefighter. Now he's a poet. He talks to NPR's Noel King about his new collection of poetry: Spot Weather Forecast.

The city's per capita overdose death rate is among the highest in the U.S. To help address the crisis, city officials launched Street Overdose Response Teams, part of a broader public health effort.

Passengers expected their baggage to be on the carousel, but they received nearly 100 boxes neatly wrapped in blue. British Airways hasn't said how the luggage was swapped for a cargo of frozen fish.

Most people know about Rosa Parks and the 1955 Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott. Nine months earlier, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on the same bus system.

It will be the second and final eclipse of the year. West Coast night owls and East Coast early risers could catch the peak of the cosmic event.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Garrett Epps of the Washington Monthly, who's also a professor of law at the University of Oregon, about what the Supreme Court has on its docket Tuesday.