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It's a wrap on the U.S. Track and Field Trials, where it was make or break to get to the Paris Games. Meet some of the sprinters, distance runners and shot-putters who will compete in France.

A NASA space probe captured some eerie sounds when it flew past Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons. Ganymede is the largest moon in the solar system — it's even bigger than the planet Mercury!

A cat wandered onto the baseball field during a game between the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals. The next thing that happened was the Cardinals hit a grand slam. Cardinals fans were happy.

In But Didn't We Have Fun?, author Peter Morris explores America's pastime even before it was America's pastime — and long before the days of big clubs, big stadiums and big crowds. He looks at how baseball evolved in the fields across America.

As the heroin business booms, driven by U.S. demand, Guerrero has been one of Mexico's most violent states. The Mexican army is demonstrating efforts to eradicate the flowering crop at the source.

The descendants of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and those of the people the Lee family enslaved came together for the first time at Arlington House, the national memorial to Lee in Virginia.

Eleanor Beardsley is an NPR correspondent based in Paris, France.

A teacher is considered “out of field” when they’re teaching a grade level or subject that they’re not licensed by the state to teach. In Illinois, 4 percent of all teachers are “out of field.” But as WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports, in one district, it ballooned all the way to 37 percent.

All this talk of bipartisanship in the Illinois legislature is a bit overblown, according to a veteran state lawmaker who opposed much of the legislation…

Despite business owner concerns, a minimum wage increase bill passed the Illinois Senate this week. If it passes the House and is signed into law,…