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Members of Jamaica's men's 4x100-meter relay team react following their heat at the Paris Olympics on Thursday, in Saint-Denis, France.

In Paris, Jamaican sprinters backslide in Olympic track rivalry with U.S.

The Americans, unsurprisingly, have medaled in the fastest track events at the Paris Games. The Jamaicans? Hardly.

We asked global thinkers how to improve life on earth in 2025. Here are their wishes

What's one thing humankind can do to help heal the world? The wishes cover everything from upholding Jimmy Carter's legacy to cleaning up Mt. Everest. Readers, we'd like to hear your wishes as well.

Three members of the Women's March group protest in support of access to abortion medication outside the Federal Courthouse on March 15, 2023, in Amarillo, Texas.

Texas challenges shield laws by suing New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit against a New York doctor who prescribed abortion pills for a client near Dallas, pitting an abortion ban against laws that protect physicians.

Heavy snow falls as a person walks along U.S. Route 42 in Florence, Ky., on Monday.

At least 4 people are dead as massive snowstorm creates dangerous travel conditions

Dozens of people have also been injured in a major winter storm spanning from Ohio to Washington, D.C. Up to a foot of snow is expected in some areas, and hundreds of thousands of people are without power.

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Meet the candidates and learn what's at stake with KPBS' Nov. 5, 2024 election guide for California State Assembly races.

A motorist drives through the snow near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport on Sunday in Louisville, Ky. Local forecasts called for heavy snowfall followed by significant accumulation of freezing rain and ice.

Millions face snow and ice as a major winter storm moves across the U.S.

A major winter storm is bringing ice, snow and freezing rain from the Plains to the East Coast through Tuesday.

Advocates for psychedelic therapies plan to press the California Legislature to legalize them in some way in 2025. Several previous efforts have failed. Here, a vendor bags psilocybin mushrooms at a cannabis marketplace in Los Angeles on May 24, 2019.

California almost legalized psychedelics. Now, supporters are looking for a good test case

Two states legalized psychedelic therapies since 2020 and President Biden signed a law supporting studies of how they might help veterans. Proposals like those keep dying in California.

U.S. players react after the women's bronze medal rugby sevens match between USA and Australia during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Tuesday.

The U.S. women’s rugby sevens team achieves a first — an Olympic medal

The U.S. women are bringing home the country’s first medal in rugby sevens. In a dramatic finish, the U.S. defeated Australia, 14-12 to win the bronze medal.

Critic Aisha Harris has been rewatching The Dick Van Dyke Show. The actor is pictured above in May 1967.

What's Making Us Happy: A guide to your weekend scrolling, listening and viewing

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: JamesEarl333 on TikTok, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the songs "Young Lion" and "Kid on Christmas."

TJ Hoover, left, and his sister, Donna Rhorer. In October 2021, Hoover was declared dead and on the brink of having his organs removed to be transplanted into other people. The surgery was halted in the operating room.

'Horrifying' mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say

At a hospital in Kentucky, a man who had been declared dead after a drug overdose was moving and visibly crying as he was prepped for surgery to donate his vital organs. The surgery was stopped, and the man is alive three years later.

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