Lael Brainard is director of the U.S. National Economic Council. She was appointed by President Joe Biden to the position in February 2023. Brainard had been a member of the Board of Governors of ...

Lael Wilcox is one of the most accomplished ultra-marathon cyclists of the last decade. For example, in 2016, she became the first American to win a big-time 4,200-mile race called the Trans Am ...

American Lael Wilcox has broken the world record for the fastest woman to cycle around the world, traversing 21 countries and 18,125 miles in three and a half months. Arriving back in Chicago at 9 ...

After traveling more than 18,000 miles across three continents and through both hemispheres, Lael Wilcox is back home. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) LAEL WILCOX: Hi, NPR. It's Lael ...

Lael Wilcox arrives at Buckingham Fountain on Wednesday after completing an 18-125-mile solo bike trek across the globe that started in Chicago on May 26. Wilcox hopes to submit records of her ...

Lael Wilcox rode from Lincoln to Chicago on Day 109 on her around-the-world ride. Wilcox on Wednesday, Sept. 11, broke a world record for the fastest time a woman has ridden a bicycle around the ...