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The surprising decision to divide the win is an anticlimactic ending for a much-hyped, Olympic-style search. The plan promised up to 50,000 new high-paying jobs and drew 238 bids.

Mais Istanbelli left her home in Aleppo before the civil war began Syria. She's in Sweden, but her family is still in Syria. She tells NPR's Scott Simon what she's hearing from her relatives back home.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with the president of the Indian American Medical Association of Illinois, Dr. Suneela Harsoor, about physicians aiding India's COVID-19 crisis.

The Pentagon will admit women to all its combat positions, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Thursday. The policy change drops the last major barrier to equal service in the military.

One of the 13 U.S. service members to die after the Kabul airport bombing was Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss, a 23-year-old special operations soldier from Tennessee. His widow, Alena, remembers him.

Three Denver-area teenaged girls were arrested after leaving the U.S. and seeking to join militants of the Islamic State in Syria. The teenagers were arrested in Germany over the weekend and returned home by the FBI on Monday. Robert Siegel talks to Megan Verlee of Colorado Public Radio.

A carrot isn't enough — bring on the stick. A study finds smokers are more likely to quit tobacco if they lose some of their own money after a relapse, than if they get a bonus for quitting the habit.

Critics are outraged, saying the anti-doping agency for the Games is ignoring the actions of the white athlete on the heels of suspending the Black sprinter this month.

NPR's Scott Simon asks former All Things Considered host Robert Siegel about Siegel's recent COVID-19 diagnosis.

A police van in South Carolina was swept away by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, drowning two women who were trapped in a cage in the back.