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The field support robot will be fetching all sorts of objects during the weekend's track and field events. It's one of several robots designed to make the games more user-friendly and efficient.

It's already been a historic Games and it's not over yet.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with writer Jaime Lowe about her new book, Breathing Fire, which tells the stories of the incarcerated women who are part of California's wildfire crews.

On Thursday, President Biden said that federal workers and contractors would be required to be vaccinated, or face mandatory masking and testing.

The defendants are facing charges of embezzlement, fraud, abuse of power and a host of other accusations.

The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients has doubled over the past month, and experts estimate that the current fifth wave of infections still has a week or two to go before reaching its peak.

William Gardner Smith wrote the story of a Black writer who, like Smith himself, moved to Paris to pursue a freedom he couldn't find in America. New York Review Books is releasing a new edition.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Dev Patel, who plays aspiring knight Gaiwan in the new movie, The Green Knight, based on one of the most famous Arthurian legends.

Neither swimmers Ryan Murphy nor Luke Greenbank directly accused Evgeny Rylov of doping. But both said it was frustrating not to know if any of their competitors had a drug-induced advantage.

In the 1960s, Moses led efforts to organize and register Black residents to vote in Mississippi and brought national attention to the state's entrenched white supremacy. Moses died Sunday at age 86.

The country is still dealing with the fallout of President Jovenel Moïse's assassination a month ago.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dr. Ranit Mishori of Georgetown University about the CDC's confusing messaging around wearing masks (spoiler alert: we should probably never have stopped masking indoors).