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When Olympian Fu Yuanhui said "my period started last night," she shed light on shifting attitudes toward menstruation in her homeland.

The GOP presidential candidate is seen lighting a diya, part of the upcoming Hindu festival of Diwali. This year, the lamp is enveloped in another kind of politics — between India and China.

Fellow Travelers is based on Thomas Mallon's historical novel of the same name. It takes place during the McCarthy 1950s, when intense scrutiny fell not only on suspected communists but gays as well.

In Spain, El Gordo — the fat one — doesn't refer to Santa Claus during the holiday season. Instead it's the Christmas lottery, and three-quarters of Spaniards buy tickets each year.

"Mad" Mike Hughes plans to take the rocket built from salvaged metal on a flight across the Mojave Desert on Saturday. His stated mission: to overturn two millennia of scientific understanding.

Thousands of text messages between two FBI employees give a peek at the Russia probe. The Wall Street Journal's Del Quentin Wilber talks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about the texts.

ESPN's Howard Bryant and NPR's Scott Simon discuss the upcoming face-off between Floyd Mayweather and Connor McGregor and whether the fight should have been sanctioned.

Before his death in 2015, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet collaborated with saxophonist Benjamin Boone in the recording studio. The results have finally been released as The Poetry Of Jazz.

The problem is, it's hard to prove. Journals deny it. But some academics say they've experienced it firsthand.

Above: The first movement of Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7, "Leningrad." Bernard Haitink leads the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It is as much a…