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John McEnroe, Billie Jean King and other tennis legends discuss their legacies in a new PBS documentary series.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has been awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for certifying the 2020 presidential election after rioters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Chief Justice John Roberts released a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin declining his invitation to testify about the ethical standards maintained by the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the unanimous opinion, with Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writing separate concurring opinions.

In Hong Kong, dozens of pro-democracy lawmakers and activists were arrested — the biggest roundup under the new national security law since its introduction last summer.

John Rizzo, who spent six years as acting general counsel for the CIA, says that while he believes intelligence gains justified the agency's interrogations, he understands those who feel otherwise.

The lawmaker's letter was one of several reactions to the decision. Also Thursday, a former special operations forces commander defended John Brennan and asked Trump to revoke his clearance too.

Elaine Fantham, who joined NPR's Scott Simon to talk classics for many years, has died. Her student, John Allemang, remembers the woman fondly known as "the rock-star of classics."

John Daniszewski from the Associated Press, Margaret Sullivan from The Washington Post and Elizabeth Spayd from The New York Times discuss the media's roll in covering this political climate.

The I-Will-If-You-Will Book Club just finished reading John Steinbeck's Dust Bowl saga. Scholar Susan Shillinglaw joins us in the comments to talk about the book's legacy.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Jacqueline Charles of the Miami Herald and John Holman of Al Jazeera English about the Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and those being returned to Haiti.

NPR's China affairs correspondent, details his two-year-long saga to return to his beat in Shanghai amid strict COVID-19 protocols.

Legal scholar John Yoo talks with Steve Inskeep about the reach of executive power during a time of war. Yoo says the Constitution gives presidents expansive power in these situations, held in check by Congressional review and oversight.

Most of the major contenders for president began their last day of pre-caucus campaigning in Iowa on Wednesday, flying fast planes to the far corners of the state. And in the evening, they were in Des Moines for big rallies — telling everyone to turn out Thursday night.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks University of Pennsylvania foreign policy and national security historian John Gans if there is a "Biden Doctrine" guiding American foreign policy.

Political commentator Gayle Trotter, New Yorker writer John Cassidy, and David Wessel of the Brookings Institution talk about the U.K.'s vote to leave the EU and what it means for American politics.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox, author of the book Children Under Fire, about the immediate and long-term affects of gun violence on children.

President Obama is expected to continue announcing cabinet nominations to fill posts during his second term. On Monday, he announced he would nominate Chuck Hagel to be Defense secretary and John Brennan for CIA director. Steve Inskeep talks to Danielle Pletka, vice president of foreign and defense policy at the American Enterprise Institute, and Vali Nasr, a scholar of the Muslim world and a former adviser to the Obama administration, about these nominations.

NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks with E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution, and John Phillips of The Orange County Register, CNN, and KABC, about the political news of the week.

President Putin starts his first foreign trip of this new term: a two-day visit to China to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Here's the significance of this trip and what we can expect from it,