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Legendary sports broadcaster Greg Gumbel has died at the age of 78.

NASA's Parker Solar Space Probe got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. NPR talks to the scientist behind the project, Nour Rawafi.

NPR's Life Kit has tips for how to reflect on the past year.

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with writer Colette Shade about her book "Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)."

As 2024 nears its end, we take a look at some memorable podcasts from NPR member stations that we featured this year.

The Norwegian chess grandmaster was fined $200 and given a warning by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to change into acceptable attire or be disqualified.

Big Lots said Friday it will be sold to Gordon Brothers Retail Partners, a firm that specializes in distressed companies.

People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype after years and billions of dollars were spent on painstaking preparation.

Yellen told Congress her agency will need to start taking "extraordinary measures," or special accounting maneuvers intended to prevent the nation from hitting the debt ceiling, as early as Jan. 14.

Hussey was 15 when director Franco Zeffirelli cast her in his adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy. The film won two Oscars and Hussey won a Golden Globe for best new actress for her part as Juliet.