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This week on Hidden Brain: coincidences. Why they're not quite as magical as they seem, and the psychological reasons we can't help but search for meaning in them anyway.

Ahead of Election Day, first-time political campaign volunteers discuss why this was the year they decided to grab a clipboard and get involved in the elections happening around them.

French President Emmanuel Macron has come out of the Notre Dame fire crisis trying to urge unity but the public has demands.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced the city would pay millions of dollars to people who were injured and to families of those killed by New Orleans police around the time Hurricane Katrina hit.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Katarina Hoije, a freelance journalist who is outside the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital where gunmen held at least 170 people this morning.

James Tynion's zombie horror comic has an inspired idea at its core: The infection comes from an Internet meme, a cartoon of a cute sloth that turns all who see it into brainless, ravenous beasts.

Steve Inskeep talks to Imad Dafaaoui, a Moroccan university student, who was among those celebrating France's Independence Day in Nice Thursday night.

A major storm just left the region early Monday; another is due to sweep through starting Tuesday. Emergency crews have taken this chance to rescue people stranded by the first storm.

Two Americans infected with Ebola in West Africa are flying to Atlanta. They will be the first patients treated for the disease in the U.S. What's the risk of Ebola spreading during the transport?

Former congressman Jim Traficant, who died Saturday at age 73, served prison time for bribery and racketeering. But he always remained popular in Youngstown — a city that felt abandoned by others.