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Sabrina Carpenter, shown here performs during the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on September 11, 2024 in Elmont, N.Y., has three hits in the top 10 of the single chart this week. Her album Short n' Sweet spends a fourth week at No. 1 on the album chart.

Shaboozey and Sabrina Carpenter rule the charts as The Weeknd approaches

Two of 2024's biggest new hitmakers consolidate their hold on the top of the pop charts, while a pair of stars from a previous generation — Katy Perry and Lady Gaga — both stumble with new work.

San Diego Padres' Manny Machado hugs bullpen catcher Gilberto Andrade after a win over the Atlanta Braves in Game 2 of an NL Wild Card Series baseball game Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in San Diego.

Higashioka's homer starts rally as Padres beat Braves 5-4 to sweep NL Wild Card Series

The San Diego Padres held on to sweep the Atlanta Braves with a 5-4 win in Game 2 of their NL Wild Card Series.

The Milwaukee Running Group — OMG meets up on a rainy morning in Milwaukee recently.

What matters to key swing state voters in Wisconsin? A single road offers a glimpse

A team from NPR speaks with voters along a 15-mile road that cuts through the Milwaukee area's segregated neighborhoods as election season continues in this crucial swing state.

Mariah Carey says her "heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother" — and in a tragic turn of events, the singer's older sister also died on the same day. Carey is seen her performing last year in Los Angeles.

Mariah Carey says her mother and sister died on the same day

The singer has previously described having intensely complicated relationships with her family, describing her early life as a source of recurring instability.

Novak Djokovic of Serbia wipes his face against Alexei Popyrin of Australia during a third round match of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Friday.

Defending U.S. Open champion Novak Djokovic knocked out in shock defeat

Djokovic bowed out with a 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 loss to 28th-seeded Alexei Popyrin of Australia, another shocking result at Flushing Meadows one night after Carlos Alcaraz exited.

Why Nevada's housing crisis is about more than Californians driving up home prices

As part of NPR's "We, The Voters" series, we went to Nevada to talk to residents about their housing situation, the state's affordable housing crisis and what factors are driving it.

Luis Armando Albino was kidnapped as a child from a park in Oakland, Calif., in 1951. Seven decades later, his niece took an online DNA test that led authorities to his home on the East Coast.

A boy snatched from a California park in 1951 is found living on the East Coast

Luis Armando Albino was lured away from a California park at the age of 6. He reunited with his biological family this summer after his niece found him through DNA testing and newspaper clippings.

Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party of Austria, celebrates with supporters, in Vienna on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, after polls closed in the country's national election.

Austrian far-right party wins national vote but its chances of governing are unclear

The Freedom Party on Sunday secured the first far-right national parliamentary election victory in post-World War II Austria. But political rivals have said they won’t work with the party's leader.

Joey Chestnut ate 83 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes onstage in Las Vegas for a live Netflix event on Monday. His longtime rival, Takeru Kobayashi, ate 66.

Top dog Joey Chestnut beats his archrival and his own hot dog-eating world record

Joey Chestnut faced off against Takeru Kobayashi in a Netflix showdown on Monday. Chestnut downed 83 hot dogs and buns to Kobayashi's 66 in 10 minutes, beating his own world record from 2021.

In this handout image supplied by the Office of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is pictured at the Qiz Qalasi Dam, constructed on the Aras River on the joint borders between Iran and Azerbaijan. Raisi was seen as a potential successor to Iran's supreme leader.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-liner who crushed dissent, dies at 63

Iran's ultraconservative president, killed in a helicopter crash, oversaw a crackdown on women's protests and was linked to extrajudicial killings in the 1980s.

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