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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.

Canadian elections are just days away. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to the CBC's Rick Mercer about who is running, what are the issues and does anyone in America care?

In New Prairie Kitchen, a Nebraska food writer collects recipes and stories from Great Plains chefs and farmers. Their movement utilizes local ingredients like bison, morels and black walnuts.

American English has a rich history of regionalisms — which sometimes tell us a lot about where we come from.

This week's military commissions of Guantanamo Bay detainees slogged or ground to a halt when the accused tried to fire their attorneys — again. Then excerpts shown from torture scenes in the film Zero Dark Thirty jolted the staid war court. The trials of some of the detention center's most prominent detainees have no end in sight even as President Obama hopes to close the Guantanamo facility.

Talks continue on a deal to avoid automatic spending cuts and tax increases. But with just hours to go before they kick in, an agreement remained elusive.

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.

Did you miss the MIT conference on sports analytics? Slate's Mike Pesca tells NPR's Rachel Martin about the new tracking technology used in basketball, which puts rebounding in whole new light.

"Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die," Howe says.

Only one movie in July, Transformers: Age of Extinction, has broken the 100 million mark during its opening weekend. Box office receipts all summer have proven anemic. Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst with RENTRAK, talks to Audie Cornish about the box office slump.