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  • Disney Rolls Characters Together In New Video Game
    Disney is about to release the video game Disney: Infinity. Each game comes with a collectible toy figurine that activates parts of the game when placed on a special base. In the game, different Disney characters will interact with each other. Captain Jack Sparrow can play or fight with Mr. Incredible in the world of The Nightmare Before Christmas. To understand the new Disney game, you first need to look at another game that's been a blockbuster for Activision, Skylanders.
  • Locals working for a UNDP cash-for-work program clear debris in one of the neighborhoods worst affected by the typhoon that hit Tacloban, Philippines, last November. Tim Walsh runs the program, which he hopes will help keep the local economy going.
    Turning A Million Cubic Yards Of Post-Typhoon Trash Into Jobs
    Some call Tim Walsh the disaster garbage man, but he prefers waste management specialist. After major natural disasters, the Briton comes to clean up and put people to work. Amid destruction he's seen from Indonesia to the Philippines, he's learned that there's opportunity, and hope, even in a dump.
  • An anti-surveillance protester stands outside the Bilderberg conference last year in Watford, England. This year the conference may be in Denmark.
    Bewildered By Bilderberg
    By creating a Google Alert for a mysterious meeting of the world's power brokers, we came to know that there is a lot we don't know.
  • Reid Kennedy, materials manager at San Francisco General Hospital, stands next to racks of saline solution. He has had to carefully manage the hospital's supply of saline during this shortage.
    Shortage Of Saline Solution Has Hospitals On Edge
    Saline, used to clean wounds and treat dehydration, is a critical medical supply. But lately there hasn't been enough of it, and drugmakers say they won't be able to meet demand until next year.
  • A check of Medicare's new database of payments to physicians confirms that at least $6 million in 2012 went to doctors who had been indicted or otherwise sanctioned.
    Medicare Kept Paying Indicted, Sanctioned Doctors
    Among doctors who received payments from Medicare in 2012 are dozens who had been kicked out of Medicaid, or charged with fraud, or settled fraud cases out of court, a ProPublica investigation finds.
  • <p>Marie Howe is the author of three collections of poetry. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. </p>
    Poet Marie Howe On 'What The Living Do' After Loss
    "Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die," Howe says.
  • Clockwise from top left: Jackie Venson, The Routine, Safar and Passive Aggressives Anonymous.
    The Early-Bird Tiny Desk Contest Entries We Love
    You can still enter the Tiny Desk Contest for a few more weeks, but here are some entries that have caught the eyes — and ears — of NPR Music already.
  • The Echo, a digital assistant that can be set up in a home or office, vaulted into the top 10 of Amazon's best-selling electronics this year.
    How Did We Do On 2015 Tech Predictions? 'Still Waiting'
    Last year, our tech reporters looked ahead to developments dealing with anticipatory computing, data breaches and Apple. Now as 2015 ends, they consider what has changed.
  • Former CIA Director John Brennan at a congressional hearing in 2017. President Trump revoked Brennan's security clearance, claiming he was "erratic." Brennan has been one of Trump's harshest critics in the national security community.
    Trump Revokes Clearance Of Ex-CIA Boss Brennan, Puts Other Critics On Notice
    In addition to revoking the clearance of former CIA Director and outspoken Trump critic John Brennan, Trump called for a review of the clearances of nine current and former government officials.
  • President Trump departs the White House on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., headed to a rally in Florida.
    Despite Warnings From GOP Leaders, Trump Continues Shutdown Threats
    Three times in three days this week, President Trump said he would force the government to shut down if Democrats do not agree to fund a wall with Mexico and make changes to immigration laws.
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