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After two-and-a-half weeks of competition, the Winter Olympics are officially over. A look back at the best moments, breakout stars and biggest upsets of the Games.

Newt Gingrich has experienced a long slide since March 6, when he won Georgia's Republican primary. It was his second and final victory of the campaign season, but Gingrich fought to stay in the race through a Southern strategy that never caught on.

Host Scott Simon talks sports with NPR's Tom Goldman. On the docket Saturday: Wimbledon.

The New York Supreme Court Justice said police had a right to enforce rules that prohibit camping in Zuccotti Park and that the city's eviction of the demonstrators did not violate their First Amendment rights.

George Zimmerman, who says he killed unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin in self-defense, has been arrested and will face a charge of second-degree murder, says State Attorney Angela Corey, the special prosecutor investigating Martin's death.

Obama said a proposal to have Syria give up its chemical weapons was a "potentially positive development."

The average wait time for results has dropped to about three days, but that is still too slow to keep infected people from unknowingly spreading the virus, researchers report.

Beyonce got $50 million to push Pepsi. Justin Timberlake: $6 million in a deal with McDonald's. A study describes the lucrative deals celebs popular with teens and young adults inked to sell food.

A new report reveals where the world stands in the fight against extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.

A report by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that backs legalized abortion, puts the 2014 rate at 14.6 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age — the lowest recorded rate since 1973.