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As part of Weekend Edition's "People We Lost In 2019" series, Jodi Freedman of Oakland, Calif., tell us about a four-legged friend in her life, her black lab Cody.

Engineering students in Connecticut are working on designs that could make everyday life easier for people with autism and their families.

Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport is challenging a 2014 state law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital in case of an emergency.

The Gullah Geechee language is spoken by descendants of enslaved Africans who were brought to the coastal South. Now, the language is being taught at Harvard University.

Members of a synagogue added armed guards to services following harassment by a neo-Nazi website. They also coordinated harassment responses with police, and say more towns should do the same.

NPR's Noel King talks to Alex White, a reporter for the Herald Sun in Melbourne, about hundreds of fires that have been burning for several months in four states in Australia.

Nissa-Lynn Parson didn't think it was odd for her son Cayden to ask for a magnifying glass. Cayden and his brothers used it to burn holes in a newspaper and ended up setting the lawn on fire.

NPR's Steve Inskeep remembers his long-time colleague Cokie Roberts — one of NPR's "founding mothers" — who died in September at the age of 75 of complications from breast cancer.

Joy can be cultivated. Hostility often masks depression. As one year ends and another begins, these six insights and tips from psychologists offer hope for a good new year.

The former Nissan chairman, who faced up to 15 years in prison over a set of charges over financial misconduct in Japan, was set to stand trial in Japan in April.