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The union that represents Transportation Security Administration screeners is calling for 6,000 more screeners to help alleviate long lines at airport checkpoints. It says Congress is to blame for the staffing shortages.

It's been an eventful 365 days for Kurt Searvogel. He got in two crashes, got married, had a heart scare — and averaged more than 200 miles of biking a day, topping a 75,065-mile record set in 1939.

A new study finds black students are half as likely as white students to be assigned to a gifted program. Unless their teacher looks like them.

Meditation can help relieve chronic back pain, and so can cognitive behavioral therapy, a study finds. But good luck getting insurance to pay for it.

Howard Bryant of ESPN.com is at the Wimbledon tennis championships and tells NPR's Scott Simon about what he's seen so far.

Pokemon Go has become a smartphone gaming sensation, generating $1.6 million in daily revenue by one estimate and boosting the market value of Nintendo. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to writer Glen Weldon about the hit game and the playing experience.

One day after a major earthquake hit the island, killing at least 10 people and leaving dozens missing, another sizable temblor rattled rescue workers who were seeking survivors in amid the rubble.

A new reissue catches Montgomery's quartet on their 1965 European tour. Critic Kevin Whitehead says the compilations are elegant and complicated, and you can hear Coltrane's influence throughout.

The Biden administration says it will defend its rule requiring some 84 million workers to get vaccinated or undergo weekly testing. More than two dozen states have sued to stop it.

The video shows Gosar's character killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a sword and brandishing weapons at President Biden. Twitter says it violates its hateful conduct rules but has left it up.