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Writer F.X. Toole. At age 70, he's just published his first book. It's a collection of short stories about boxing called Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner. (ECCO/HarperCollins) For twenty years, he's been a cut man, stopping the bleeding so fighters can go on to the next round. Toole has been writing for 40 years, but it was the publication of his first story last year in a small literary magazine that caught the attention of a book agent. Writers James Ellroy and Joyce Carol Oates have praised this book, the former calling it "the best boxing fiction ever written." Others have compared his literary style to Frank McCourt's. Toole worked as a cabbie, bartender and bullfighter before entering the world of boxing.

Ed Martin advanced bogus claims about election fraud in swing states in 2020, and he spoke at a boisterous rally in Washington the day before the siege on the Capitol.

The 2023 Winter X Games begin Friday and continue through Sunday with a busy schedule of on-snow action sports competitions.

Scientists expose the X chromosome's complete genetic sequence. New research shows how the X and Y chromosomes evolved from a pair of regular chromosomes 300 million years ago.

Stay updated on what's going on at the base of Buttermilk for X Games 2017.[View the story "On the slopes-X Games 2017" on Storify]

NPR SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT JOE PALCA REPORTS ON HOW THE DISCOVERY OF THE X-RAY, ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, HAS CHANGED THE WORLD.

Bob Scucci, Assistant Manager at Stardust's Race and Sports Book in Las Vegas, tells Robert Siegel that betting so-far on the X.F.L. has generated a surprising amount of interest.

Forty years ago, legendary activist Malcolm X was murdered. He was giving a speech Feb. 21, 1965 in the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan when he was gunned down. We hear an excerpt of a speech he gave in 1964 and a commentary from Murad Kalam who says that Malcolm X is missed today by American Muslims, who have no contemporary leader like him.

For our first South X Lullaby of SXSW 2016, we met the pop band Lucius on a bridge over Waller Creek at 10:00 p.m. for a ballad about finding your way in the unknown.

SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded rocket plane to complete two trips to the edge of space within a two-week window. The feat makes the craft the apparent winner of a $10-million award known as the X-Prize, designed to encourage space tourism. Hear NPR's David Kestenbaum.