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The NBA Finals get underway in Arizona Tuesday night. The Milwaukee Bucks haven't made it to the championship round in 47 years. Could a win bring Milwaukee some hope?

Constituents of Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama weigh in on his efforts to block military appointments because of his position on abortion.

Inflation cooled last month, as falling gasoline prices helped to offset rising rents. News of a smaller-than-expected jump in the cost-of-living triggered a rally on Wall Street.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ben Vinson lll, the new president of Howard University, a historically Black institution, about his vision for his tenure.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Tuareg singer-songwriter and guitarist Bombino about his new album Sahel, and his nomadic people's struggles and joys.

In a monopoly lawsuit, the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states accuse Amazon of suffocating rivals and raising costs for both sellers and shoppers.

The two candidates in Argentina's Presidential runoff are almost neck and neck in an election where the economic crisis dominates the race.

The husband of a congresswoman from Alaska died in a plane crash this week — one of numerous aviation crashes that have given the state the highest rate of plane crashes in the nation.

Connoisseurs of the rarified sport of cricket still speak in whispers of the scandal, 34 years ago, when an Englishman was accused of rubbing Vaseline into the ball to make it swerve more. That affair pales by comparison with the uproar in Australia this week when Pakistan's captain was caught on camera biting a cricket ball like an apple. Ball-tampering is considered the worst form of skullduggery in the so-called Gentleman's Sport. The loudest protests have come from Pakistan's arch-rival, India.

Marie Colvin, an American who was the Sunday Times of London's chief war correspondent for a quarter of a century, was killed Wednesday. Colvin was in the embattled Syrian city of Homs and died alongside a French photojournalist and one of Syria's best known citizen journalists. All three died in a district of Homs which has been under bombardment by Syrian government forces since early this month.