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Not many early-round exits at the Olympics trigger conspiracy theories, fact-checkers, a week’s worth of memes and an online petition.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Loui's Pizza owner, Nyk Sulkiwskyj, the newly ranked best pizza in the Midwest.

Novels from Mat Johnson, Hector Tobar and Ayad Akhtar bring fresh perspectives to racial and religious politics. In nonfiction, Mike Birbiglia chronicles his life as a comedian with a sleepwalking disorder and Steven Brill examines the standards-and-accountability school reform movement.

The CDC is urging manufacturers of a type of flour used to make foods like tortillas and tamales to add folic acid to help lower the risk of some birth defects in the Hispanic population.

An unassuming brick building in Brooklyn houses a factory that makes animatronic puppets, elves and polar bears for the holiday season. NPR's Neda Ulaby drops by Mechanical Displays Inc. to talk with Lou Nasti, who's been at it for almost 44 years.

Sheila Jordan, Jack DeJohnette, Charlie Haden, Jimmy Owens and Von Freeman are honored. Watch live.

After a 4-year-old boy broke a 3,500-year-old vase, a museum in Israel viewed it as an educational opportunity and invited him and his family back to learn about how they would restore the item.

America will celebrate Juneteenth for the fourth year since it became a federal holiday. But for Galveston families, celebrations can be traced back generations.

Jenkins, whose signature tune was "You'll Sing A Song," received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and was known worldwide for her call-and-response songs.

The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft adapted Awdry's The Railway Series into Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.