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Bobsled used to be an all-male sport until 2002. Even now, the women only race two-man, not four-man bobsled. Team USA features 2 summer Olympians as brakemen. Lauren Williams is a gold and silver medalist in the sprint. Lolo Jones did the hurdles in Bejing and London.

In the first update of the National Defense Strategy since 2014, the Pentagon is putting more focus on Russia and China, the "primary concern in U.S. national security," as opposed to terrorism.

The hashtag #PenceFence made the rounds on Twitter as female journalists said they were made to stand behind their male colleagues at the vice president's visit to the holy site in Jerusalem.

President Biden is taking questions from reporters on his top foreign and domestic priorities after talks with world leaders at the G-20 in Rome — and just ahead of the U.N. climate summit.

To keep their three kids in a sought-after public school district, one family sleeps in a car in the parking lot of a Pennsylvania Walmart while the parents work the overnight shift at the store.

Music was a buoy during the turbulent times of 2021. Here's a sampling of some meaningful tracks.

Rameshchandra Patel got COVID-19 early on in the pandemic, when little was known about the virus. His son, Suhash Patel, shares the guiding principles of life his father left as notes in a textbook.

Dozens of Republican state officials are suing over the White House's COVID-19 vaccine mandate that they say is unconstitutional and threatens business.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, about the omicron variant, and how the U.S. should respond to its spread.

With a top Trump-appointed banking regulator stepping down, consumer financial protection groups say the new head of the FDIC should crack down on lenders charging interest rates of 100% or more.