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Holiday spending was higher than expected this year, despite low confidence in the economy and many people reporting tightening their budgets.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Tayari Jones, author of "An American Marriage," about her new book "Kin."

An excerpt from Ten Thousand Things, a podcast about modern-day artifacts of Asian American life.

This summer, the Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration's travel ban, meaning people from Libya, Iran, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, North Korea, and Venezuela cannot get visas to the U.S. But there is an exception: waivers.

Australians suffer through their country's worst fire season. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wants immunity from corruption charges. And, the legislative trends on the state level.

Governments are blocking the internet, banning social media posts and cutting access to commercial satellite images. But experts say that efforts to censor information have had mixed results.

The bitcoin value has soared recently and continues to rise as more and more people invest in the currency. NPR's Michel Martin asks business writer Roben Farzad what's behind the sudden skyrocketing value.

Noel King talks to Kellie Ryan of the International Rescue Committee in Uganda about the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which has crossed into Uganda.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Laura Sullivan, a professor of mechanical engineering at Kettering University, about the difficulties in replacing thousands of lead pipes that contaminated water in Flint.

The new system joins a continuous glucose monitor with an insulin pump, which work together to keep blood sugar from going too high or too low. That will make it safer to sleep through the night.