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The leaders of the international body that regulates track-and-field is to decide on Friday whether Russian athletes will be allowed in the Rio Olympics. This comes in the middle of a doping scandal.

It's a rich week for fiction, with new novels from Ann Patchett and Jennifer Weiner, and a debut by Chad Harbach that marries a literary sensibility with a love of baseball — plus Jorie Graham's new poetry collection. In nonfiction, Erik Larson is back with the story of an American ambassador in Germany in 1933.

A year after the fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, experts and others are still concerned about toxins and their aftereffects.

The investigation into the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse is looking closely at the role the president's security detail played the night of his death.

Can ruins become the material for rebuilding? NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Palestinian architect Yara Sharif about the future reconstruction of Gaza.

The HBO miniseries starring Frances McDormand is based on a collection of stories about residents in a small town in Maine. It's about family, friends and the tenuous relationships that make up life.

In Georgia, the Republican candidate for governor, Brian Kemp, is leading. Democrat Stacey Abrams says she will not concede until every vote is counted in one of the most contentious races in the U.S.

Democratic presidential candidates will gather in California this weekend for a state Democratic Party convention. California's liberal policies have served as an inspiration for many.

The former Trump campaign manager turned himself in to the FBI. Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Ryan Lucas.

Louisiana's new congressional map is caught in a legal fight that could determine the balance of power in the next Congress and set up another Supreme Court test of the Voting Rights Act.