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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with sportswriter Christine Brennan of USA Today about the NCAA COVID-19 rules. She points out that the women's team is playing in Texas, which has no mask mandate.

Updated blood pressure guidelines move the goal post for millions of people at risk for heart attacks and strokes. The change is likely to lead to more people taking medicines for hypertension.

College football looks a lot different than it did last season. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Holly Anderson co-host of the Shutdown Fullcast about all the changes.

For the World Cup winners, the cancellation is the latest in a series of events that highlight disparities between men's and women's soccer in the U.S.

African-American women's advantage in avoiding breast cancer has evaporated, with their rates rising to match white women's. Higher obesity rates, a risk factor for breast cancer, may be one reason.

"It's a little space, well-measured and precise, in which you have to keep the ball bouncing," says Álvaro Enrigue. His book, Sudden Death, pits the Italian painter against the Spanish poet.

Maroulis pulled off a major upset as she defeated her Japanese rival who had lost only twice in the past 14 years.

The Americans qualified with a CONCACAF tournament win over Mexico. The squad will be making its seventh-straight Olympics appearance — and get a shot at redemption after the 2016 Games.

"The timing is right to move on, and the program is positioned to remain at the pinnacle of women's soccer," said Ellis, who won back-to-back World Cup titles and will depart in October.

The department is receiving more than $1 million in federal grants, which officials say will allow access to new technology and provide better assistance to crime victims.