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The Los Angels Rams beat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in Sunday's Super Bowl. The game and halftime show eclipsed a collection of uninspired commercials.

Members of the Sackler family didn't respond as people confronted them during a court hearing about the harm caused by their company Purdue Pharma and its highly addictive pain medication OxyContin.

Pfizer and BioNTech are poised to formally ask the Food and Drug Administration to authorize the first COVID booster shot for kids ages 5 to 11.

It's been a week since Adam Lanza went on a horrific shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killing 20 children and six adults. Authorities have been combing through evidence trying to piece together an explanation of why Lanza did what most consider the unthinkable.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to House Democratic Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland about a newly passed bill targeting domestic terrorism, and the partisan divides that make Senate approval unlikely.

The Republican-led House rejects any timetable for pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq, and passes a non-binding resolution formally declaring Iraq as one of the theaters in the war on terrorism.

Hurricane Wilma has grown rapidly grew from a tropical storm with 70 mph winds to a Category Five hurricane, the most rapidly strengthening hurricane recorded. It's expected to weaken before possibly making landfall on Florida's west coast over the weekend. Christopher Landsay at the National Hurricane Center in Miami discusses Wilma.

Spring comes late to western Alaska and brings a mix of anxiety and anticipation. Citizen scientists use traditional knowledge to predict river breakup and flooding for dozens of remote communities.

Across the country, homes are beginning to take longer to sell, a sign that the hot real-estate market of the last decades is starting to cool. In the Boston metropolitan area, which has seen a faster appreciation of home values than most of the country, homes prices are not rising as fast they used to. Fred Thys of member station WBUR reports.

Thanks to interleague play, the formerly cursed Boston Red Sox and the perhaps-still-cursed Chicago Cubs are meeting on the field for the first time in 90 years. Melissa Block talks with George Lucas, owner of the famed Cubby Bear sports bar in Chicago. He was at Wrigley Field on Friday for the first game in the series.