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The Washington Spirit, D.C.'s national women's soccer team, just sold for a record amount after a months-long ownership battle. It's a story of how sports teams are not a typical business investment.

More than 15,000 babies have been born in Ukraine since the start of the war. At a maternity hospital in Kyiv, new parents tell of the long road it took to get them to safety.

Everyone has a movie they've just never marked off their watchlist. NPR's Weekend Edition wants to help.

A new machine at the New York Public Library can read cracked and broken wax cylinders, and play recordings from regular people not heard in about 100 years. It's one of seven in the world.

From blockbusters like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to smaller films like Deliver Us From Evil, documentaries are drawing large audiences. But some worry that the Academy's new rules could hamper that trend.

Israeli troops and armored vehicles pull out of the West Bank city of Nablus after a two-day security operation, leaving behind a trail of smashed cars, broken windows and angry Palestinians. It was the largest military sweep in the West Bank in months. Israeli officials say Nablus has become the center of planned attacks on Israel.

Ukraine has launched an investigation into war crimes officials believe have been committed by Russian forces during the course of the invasion.

Speaking at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., former Massachusetts Gov. Republican Mitt Romney announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential race. He introduced himself as a political outsider with the managerial skills necessary to fix a flawed government.

Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Employee Free Choice Act. Richard Hurd, Professor of Labor Studies at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. looks at the prospects for the labor movement under the new Democratic-led Congress.

A bar conversation in Dublin about Ireland's status as the home of "the world's loudest bat" intrigued Abinadi Meza. If humans could hear the bat, it would be like a jumbo jet taking off next to our ears, the claim went. It was enough to send Meza out with electronic gear to try to find the bat, and capture its sound.