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Noah checks in with Frankie Andreau, a domestique with the US Postal team, about racing in the Tour de France. Today riders cranked up Mount Ventoux, a climb of more than six-thousand feet. It's regarded as the toughest part of the race. Andreau's role on the team is to support to the leader, rider Lance Armstrong. Noah also talked with Andreau earlier this month.

NPR's John Ydstie reports California utilities managed to avoid "rolling blackouts" today, but for the 11th day in a row the state spent the day under a Stage 3 alert. On one level, California's power crisis is simple: too much demand, not enough supply. The full explanation is much more complicated, though, and involves a lot of bad luck, a shortage of rainfall and a botched de-regulation plan.

Commentator and cowboy poet Baxter Black has a poem on the struggle between a cowboy and a horse.

The stock market's drop over the past few days wasn't weird. What was weird was what the market did for all of 2017.

The first black photographer to receive a Guggenheim fellowship, Roy De Carava was one of a handful of innovators in the early 1950's who broke with traditional styles and subjects for photography, and tried to capture the humanity of his subjects -- the "real life" of his neighborhood, the subway, restaurants, and especially jazz musicians. Now the first major retrospective of his work is touring the country, organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Karen Michel (mih-SHEL) reports.

In the early days of the New Year, French employers summon underlings, treat them to champagne and canapes and wish them Happy New Year. NPR's Nick Spicer looks at this ritual left over from pre-revolutionary days.

For nine years, I lived in a giant apartment complex called the Summit with hundreds of other people in the city of Shanghai. Now my old neighbors are entering week six stuck inside.

Florida State University has filed a lawsuit in an effort to end its 30-year relationship with the Atlantic Coast Conference in its hopes of joining another conference.

Live on YouTube, Bob Boilen and Gina Chavez watched their favorites entries to the 2020 Contest and discussed what made them stand out from the thousands we saw this year.

Taurasi leaves her basketball career as the most decorated woman to ever play, with three WNBA titles, three NCAA titles and six Olympic gold medals to her name.