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Virginia Backtracks On Tampon Ban For Prison Visitors

The policy, meant to discourage the smuggling of contraband into prisons, was to have gone into effect next month.

At the American Athletic Conference tournament semifinals earlier this month in Uncasville, Conn., Cincinnati's Andeija Puckett, left, looks to pass to Sam Rodgers, right, under pressure from Connecticut's Kia Nurse. Connecticut is the first overall seed in the NCAA women's basketball tournament that begins on Saturday.

UConn Is First Overall Seed In NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament

The Huskies are the only unbeaten team in the tournament and are aiming for their 12th national championship. The other No. 1 seeds are Notre Dame, Louisville and Mississippi State.

'Green' Roofs Sprout Up All Over

The idea of "green" roofs -- covering the tops of buildings with plants, trees and grasses -- is as ancient as Mesopotamia. Touted as a solution to pollution and other environmental problems, they're increasingly showing up around the country. NPR's Ketzel Levine reports.

Harry Styles song, 'As It Was,' breaks Billboard record

The Harry Styles song has managed to stay No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 15 weeks. That's a feat topped by only three other songs in history.

Kendrick Lamar will headline next year's Super Bowl halftime show

The Grammy-winning rapper, who spent this summer topping the charts, previously performed at the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show. But this will be his first Super Bowl as the headliner.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans are attempting to reframe the "big lie" as an attack on voting rights legislation pushed by Democrats.

Internal GOP conflicts about 2020 election surface as party fights new voting bills

Democratic voting legislation has virtually no path to becoming law, but Senate Republicans are fighting it as the GOP still struggles over how to move forward from the 2020 election.

People pray outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., on Sunday. A day earlier, a white 18-year-old killed 10 people and wounded three in what authorities described as "racially motivated violent extremism."

What we know so far about the Buffalo mass shooting

10 people are dead after an 18-year-old white man allegedly carried out an attack at a supermarket in a majority Black community.

U.S. President Joe Biden attends a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium. A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds a majority of Americans don't like his response to the war in Ukraine.

Most Americans don't like Biden's Ukraine response and worry about inflation

A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds that most Americans give President Biden low marks for his handling of the war in Ukraine, and concerns about inflation are overshadowing positive news about the economy.

Many Won't Miss College Football's Soon-To-Go Bowl System

College football fans have just one last chance to complain about the Bowl Championship Series after this weekend. Since it was started in 1998, the complicated ranking system has determined which two teams will play for the national championship. The BCS has rankled fans and media alike every single year since then. But the era, if not the angst, is over; the BCS is gone after this season, and will be replaced by a four team playoff. Sportswriter Stefan Fatsis is happy to see it go and gives Robert Siegel a primer of which teams are likely in or out of the BCS Championship Game this year.

Peres Jepchirchir, of Kenya, left, and Ababel Yeshaneh, of Ethiopia, clasp each other's arms during the Boston Marathon on Monday. Jepchirchir won the women's division and Yeshaneh finished second. At right is Joyciline Jeopkosgei, of Kenya.

Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir wins the 50th women's Boston Marathon

On the 50th anniversary of the first official women's race, reigning Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir came out on top.

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