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What do Rapunzel, the Buddha and small-town America have in common? Deceptively safe spaces, says Steven Millhauser. The Pulitzer Prize winner's new short story collection is Voices in the Night.

In his free time, the international correspondent likes to drive around Shanghai as a sort of free taxi cab, offering rides to strangers.

After protests, a student's hunger strike and a strike by some football players, President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin announced their resignations.

The NHL is the first of the four major North American pro sports leagues to crown a champion during the pandemic. Some players spent over two months in a bubble, with no COVID-19 cases reported.

The initial public stock offering of the Chinese financial company Ant Group, which would have been the world's largest stock offering of all time, has been put on hold.

"Conducting the championship in one geographic region allows for more planning and execution of safeguards," an NCAA official said on Monday. The NCAA hopes all 64 teams will play in San Antonio.

About a third of the state's counties have been certified to begin Expanded Stage 2 of California's four-stage process, which allows more types of businesses to reopen.

The conference hopes to hold its title game in December, as it normally would, despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Many spiders ply the skies by riding "balloons" of silk. And they rely on something more than just the wind to take them high up and far away.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, about how rare attacks on journalists are in the U.S., and how President Trump's frequent anti-media rhetoric has affected the working environment for journalists.