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Hot off her NCAA title, Paige Bueckers is the 1st pick in the WNBA draft

Monday's WNBA Draft is the latest jewel in the crown of Bueckers, the 6-foot guard who barely a week ago led her UConn Huskies to their first national championship in a decade.

Rohingya refugees gather in the "no man's land" behind Myanmar's barbed-wire-lined border in Maungdaw district, Rakhine state, in 2018. Some 700,000 refugees fled into Bangladesh following a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military in 2017.

Nearly 71 Million People Forcibly Displaced Worldwide As Of 2018, U.N. Report Says

The record number headlined the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' annual "Global Trends" report published Wednesday, just a day before World Refugee Day.

A child receives the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Fairfax County Government Center in Annandale, Va., in November 2021. A committee of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended Wednesday that the agency expand authorization of COVID-19 vaccines to children as young as 6-months-old.

Advisers to the FDA back COVID vaccines for the youngest children

A committee of experts voted unanimously to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration authorize COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech for children as young as 6-months-old.

Taylor Swift, seen onstage in Amsterdam in July during the European leg of her record-breaking Eras Tour, has broken another record with her latest album <em>The Tortured Poets Department.</em>

This may sound like a broken record, but Taylor Swift has broken another record

Swift's The Tortured Poets Department has been the biggest album in the country for 12 consecutive weeks, the longest run atop that chart of her career.

Japan's Naomi Osaka returns the ball to Czech Republic's Marketa Vondrousova during their Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games women's singles third round tennis match on Tuesday.

Japanese Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Bounced Out Of Tokyo Olympics

Osaka has been the face of these Olympics and was chosen to light the cauldron in the opening ceremony. She easily won her first two tennis matches but lost in the third round.

Sofia (Danielle Brooks) and Celie (Fantasia Barrino) in the 2023 film reincarnation of <em>The Color Purple.</em>

'The Color Purple' is the biggest Christmas Day opening since 2009

The Color Purple is now the second-biggest Christmas Day opening in history — $18 million on day one of its release.

Chuck Brodsky Live Wednesday, May 2nd at 1pm

One of our favorite singer/songwriters, from Asheville or anywhere really, returns to Studio B, this time with songs from his new release "Them and Us".…

WNCW Celebrates The Life and Music of Earl Eugene Scruggs This Weekend

To celebrate the January 6th birthday of Earl Scruggs, tune in this weekend for the annual celebration of the life and music of the most important…

The Week In Sports: Wimbledon

Howard Bryant of ESPN.com is at the Wimbledon tennis championships and tells NPR's Scott Simon about what he's seen so far.

Photos of Luanda, Angola, tell a tale of two cities: sprawling poor neighborhoods and a glitzy waterfront.

Move Over Hong Kong: The World's Priciest Cities Are In Angola And Chad

A new survey of the most expensive cities in the world puts Luanda and N'djamena at the top. How did these African capitals beat our perennial top dollar towns like Hong Kong and Tokyo?

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