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Luc Montagnier, the scientist who discovered the virus that causes AIDS, has died at 89. His key contribution came at a time when AIDS was mysterious and uniformly deadly.

At the Beijing Olympics, veteran athletes are doing really well — and in some cases winning gold medals — stealing the show from their younger and flashier counterparts.

The McDonald's Arch Deluxe is one of the most infamous product failures in history. In his new book, The Voltage Effect, economist John List says it's an example of a good idea failing to scale up.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin testified about the editorial that wrongly linked her political action committee's ad to a mass shooting. The paper's attorneys pressed her on her political rhetoric.

Consumer prices continue to climb at a rapid rate. The latest inflation data from the Labor Department also reflects how the pandemic is reshaping what Americans spend money on.

Bayard Rustin was one of the most consequential architects of the civil rights movement in the '60s you may have never heard of. NPR's podcast Throughline has this profile.

The trial against the police officer charged with killing George Floyd commences in Minneapolis this week. Jamiles Lartey of The Marshall project explains why convictions in cases like this are rare.

In India, a U.S. citizen was arrested and prosecuted for allegedly breaking lockdown rules and spreading the coronavirus at the gathering of an Islamic revivalist movement. Now, he's coming back home.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Indivar Dutta-Gupta of the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality on the expanded child tax credit in the stimulus bill and how it'd reduce poverty among children.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with gun control advocate and member of the Colorado General Assembly Tom Sullivan about the Boulder shooting. Sullivan lost his son, Alex, in the 2012 shooting in Aurora.