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It has been a year since the attacks on the offices of a satirical magazine and a kosher supermarket in Paris that left 17 dead. The city paid tribute to their memory Thursday.

Marie Kondo has been called the Beyonce of tidying. The Japanese author has a cult-like following in the U.S. and her book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, has topped the best-seller lists.

Workers used a crane to reach the miners, who had been riding in an elevator that malfunctioned late Wednesday about 900 feet underground in Lansing, north of Ithaca.

In theory we do not want to buy products made by child labor or polluting factories. But in practice, we don't want to know about a company's practices.

KCCU achieved its Fall 2015 Warp Drive goal of $60,000. We received $59,977 in pledges and $1036.25 in vehicles from 310 members to total $61,013.25. This…

Since October, a natural gas storage well near Los Angeles has been spewing hundreds of tons of methane gas each day. The leak isn't expected to be fixed for months.

I figured I'd slap the baby's bottom. Wrong! Luckily I got a lesson from trainers who teach birth attendants in the developing world.

Robin Wright, who writes about Saudi Arabia and Iran in the current issue of The New Yorker, says upcoming Syrian peace talks have been compromised by the execution of an outspoken Shiite cleric.

Two years ago, in January 2013, oil was about $100 dollars a barrel. At that time, towns near new oil fields expanded rapidly, filling up with workers and overflowing revenue. But how are those towns doing now that oil is worth about half what it was then? The Planet Money team checks in with oil workers and residents in Williston, N.D.

What if we treated gun violence as a public health issue the way there were campaigns against drunk driving? Or safer sex practices during the HIV/AIDS pandemic? NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research about what this would look like, and the political and personal challenges to doing research on gun violence.