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Basketballs sit in a rack during practice for the WNBA All-Star basketball game in Chicago, Saturday, July 9, 2022. Even the handful of players selected in the upcoming WNBA draft will find it difficult to continue their pro careers. There are only potentially 144 WNBA roster spots available and most of those are filled with returning players.

After March Madness, women's pro basketball options are slim

March Madness may be the last time for fans to see many of the talented college women players compete. There are only potentially 144 WNBA roster spots available and most of those are filled with returning players. There has been talk of expansion over the last few years, but nothing has come to fruition yet.

A pedestrian walks past the News Corp. headquarters building in New York displaying posters featuring Fox News Channel personalities on April 19, 2017.

Judge rules Fox hosts' claims about Dominion were false, says trial can proceed

The blockbuster $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit is set to go to trial next month in a Delaware court.

Gender rights activists demonstrate outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Many of the bans states passed this year against gender-affirming health care for youth are in federal court and may be on their way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Can states' bans on transgender care hold up in court? We break down the arguments

The 20 gender-affirming care bans states have passed are undergoing intense legal scrutiny and testing federal courts in new ways, setting up battles that may go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

'Atlas Obscura' Tour Of Manhattan Finds Hidden Wonders In A Well-Trodden Place

Dylan Thuras, co-author of a new book, takes NPR to a piece of lost subway grandeur, a room of well-groomed dirt and a sonic secret in the middle of Times Square.

Uncovering A Dead Father's Secrets In 'After Visiting Friends'

Michael Hainey was 6 years old when he was told his father had died after "visiting friends." As he grew up, he began to suspect that the phrase was a euphemism.

'Schroder' Chronicles A Father's Desperate Mistakes

In Amity Gaige's new novel, Eric Kennedy, aka East German immigrant Erik Schroder, reveals his true identity to his ex-wife and explains why he kidnapped his own 6-year-old daughter.

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