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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Matthew Bungard of The Sydney Morning Herald about Australia wildfires and the heatwave there.

A $569 million bond proposal to build two high schools in Midland, Texas, failed by 25 votes. After a recount, it passed by eleven votes. Then a box of 820 ballots that weren't tallied was found.

Pelosi faced questions over whether her time as the top Democratic leader in the House was done. She has since silenced those critics.

Boeing has a new CEO but the same old problems. British girl finds message inside holiday card written by prisoner in Shanghai. Catholic order in Mexico reveals sexual abuse of minors in a report.

Neal Kosaly-Meyer is memorizing and reciting a chapter a year of Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. He plans to finish by 2030. It took Joyce 17 years to write the book.

The country's natural population declined by more than 500,000 this year. A number of factors have led to Japan's plummeting birth rate and a growing demographic crisis.

Blessed with a Kentucky croon and a gift for storytelling, Childers offers a slice of country life on his recent album, with songs about marriage, life on the road and the school bus he took as a kid.

The death of an American Green Beret on Monday raised the tally of U.S. forces killed in action in Afghanistan to 20 this year, the highest since combat operations officially ended in 2014.

McPherson never thought he'd make a Christmas album. Then, he says, "I got a bug in my ear." He and his band perform live in studio from Socks. Originally broadcast Dec. 11, 2018.

Those birthday fundraisers on Facebook have brought in a billion dollars for charities, but some Facebook users think the ubiquitous appeals are getting to be too much of a good thing.