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NPR staff recommend memoirs from our annual Books We Love list: "Bird of Four Hundred Voices," "The Backyard Bird Chronicles," "Knife," and "Here After."

We explore the history of the bells that have become so tied with the Christmas season: jingle bells.

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss a big weekend of college and professional football.

Hours away from a government shutdown, Congress passed a bill to fund federal operations until March 14, 2025.

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend Edition Saturday on December 16, 2023.)

Some Amazon drivers held small protests this week to highlight conditions they say need to be improved and urged other drivers to join the teamsters union.

An impasse over the budget and the threat of a government shutdown dominated political news earlier this week.

December in Peru means surf and ceviche, as our reporter catches some breaks on the beaches outside Lima.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Natan Sachs of the Brookings Institution about how Israel views ...

German officials say a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who moved to Germany in 2006 deliberately drove his car into a crowded outdoor Christmas market Friday.