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A robot unveiled by Disney researchers can drive up vertical surfaces. Other machines pushing boundaries: a bot that can jump on water without sinking and a bot that flies like a bird.

Another 3.8 million people filed claims for unemployment last week, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to weigh on the U.S. job market. That brought the total for the past 6 weeks to 30.3 million.

The word for theater in Arabic is masrah. Tonight is the debut of Masrah Cleveland Al-Arabi, which translates to Cleveland Arabic Theatre. Its creation is part of a Cleveland Public Theatre initiative to engage with local ethnic communities through art. Similar to the local troupe for Cleveland's Latino population, Teatro Público de Cleveland, Masrah Cleveland is staged by, for and with the local Arabic-speaking community.

Suicide rates among Black youth and Black adults in Ohio have been rising in the last two decades to some of the highest rates of any group in the country.

On Sunday, it was the 55th day this year that the official reading at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport hit 110 degrees. But the end may finally be in sight for residents of Arizona's largest city.

The Major League Baseball Playoffs have started, while in hockey Las Vegas played Dallas after the week's massacre.

Kherson is coming back to life after more than 8 1/2 months under Russian occupation. There's no water or electricity, but residents are celebrating — even as they recall the horrors of occupation.

On Dec. 26, 2004, the biggest tsunami in recent memory killed more than 250,000 people around the coast of the Indian Ocean. Two years after the tsunami, people displaced by the disaster are still living intents or makeshift homes. The Red Cross promised to build 50,000 homes; so far, there are only 8,000. Host Robert Siegel speaks with the United Nations' Miloon Kothari.

Lessons in noodle-making is one of the ways that China hopes to eliminate rural poverty by 2020.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde GebreMariam about a preliminary investigation that found the crew of their crashed 737 Boeing Max 8 performed all recommended procedures.