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More than 70 percent of Americans are expected to shop over this holiday weekend to take advantage of the sales. Consumer confidence is at its highest since the early 2000s.

A report shows that the overwhelming majority of jobs created in the Chicago area are located near transit stations. The same thing is happening in other metropolitan regions — as well as the suburbs.

An ethnic Kazakh Chinese woman says Chinese authorities in Xinjiang forced her to undergo an abortion. Government minders were assigned to monitor her at home. Finally, she left China for Kazakhstan.

Police say the two went to an airstrip in Jensen and stole a single-engine plane and then flew very low along U.S. Route 40. They were arrested after landing safely at another airport.

It's the day after Thanksgiving and shoppers have been lining up outside stores for Black Friday sales. Some have been waiting for days. There are ways around standing in line.

According to the government's most comprehensive assessment to date, climate change has already damaged American infrastructure and cost both money and lives.

In February, the city will ban advertising for food and drinks high in salt, sugar and fat in all of London's public transportation network. It is part of a plan to curtail rising childhood obesity.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to climate scientist Brenda Ekwurzel about the National Climate Assessment released on Friday and whether the impacts of climate change being felt already are reversible.

After traveling to 30 cities to try 330 cheeseburgers, food writer Kevin Alexander crowned Stanich's in Portland, Ore., the best burger in America. Five months later, Stanich's closed. What happened?

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with political commentators Gayle Trotter and Kimberly Atkins of the Boston Herald about the United States' relationship with Saudi Arabia, the Democrats potentially gaining as many as 40 seats in the House of Representatives and about Nancy Pelosi likely being voted House speaker again.