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Remember the "balloon boy" story? One day in 2009, emergency crews chased a silver balloon that looked like a flying saucer as it floated high above Northern Colorado – because they thought a 6-year-old boy was inside. The story is viewed as a notorious hoax. A new documentary from Netflix takes a fresh look at what happened.

NPR's A Martinez talks to the host of NPR's TED Radio Hour about the new series examining the relationship between technology and our bodies.

NPR's Ailsa Chang spoke with Shahidul Alam, a photojournalist, writer and activist based in Dhaka, about the longtime prime minister of Bangladesh fleeing amid protests.

One of the winningest coaches in NFL history, six-time Super Bowl champion Bill Belichick is leaving as coach of the New England Patriots after a 24-year tenure that made the team a football dynasty.

It might have been all that Democrats hoped for and more, but how might the DNC set up candidates — in both parties — for the last leg before the election?

The long ball is back. Major League Baseball players broke the single season record for home runs. But, how did this happen? And do we have to start wondering about steroids again?

Ty Garbin pleaded guilty last year for his role in a conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from her vacation home.

Evan Neumann is under federal indictment in the U.S. for more than a dozen charges linked to last year's Capitol insurrection. Russian ally Belarus has granted him asylum and protection indefinitely.

The former president's campaign to get his vice president to overturn the election "was not just wrong," said Vice Chair Liz Cheney, a Republican, "it was illegal and unconstitutional."

The winning ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Neptune Beach, a town along the Atlantic Coast near Jacksonville. The jackpot was the third-largest in U.S. history.