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As families gather for the holidays, some parents are hoping to pass down family heirlooms. But many Baby Boomers are discovering their treasures aren’t valued as much as they expected.

Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti talks with Turkish journalist Afsin Yurdakul about how the assassination is reverberating in Turkey.

Swiss police say it appears the 22-year-old Swiss man of Ghanaian origin killed himself shortly after storming into the Zurich Somali-Islamic center where he shot and wounded three worshippers.

UPDATE: Charlotte City Council scheduled an emergency meeting at 9:00 this morning to address concerns that the council did not completely repeal the…

U.N. officials have sounded alarms about a potential genocide in South Sudan's civil war. The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. gives graphic examples, but says diplomats are "sitting on our hands."

If the events of 2016 have got you down, commentator Christine Brennan says take a look at the sports pages, there's been a lot there to make folks smile.

David Greene talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution and a contributing correspondent to The Wall Street Journal, about why stocks have been going up.

China has returned a U.S. Navy drone it confiscated last week in the South China Sea. Some see the incident as part of a larger Chinese effort to gradually erode U.S. strategic dominance in Asia.

A national TV meteorologist plants himself in the same spot in front of the map, but his body blocks an entire region. Angry residents created a Facebook group: Stop standing in front of East Iceland.

The General Assembly is meeting at this hour to discuss repealing House Bill 2, though the repeal effort was thrown into turmoil when rumors began…

Temperatures at the North Pole are expected to be 40 to 50 degrees higher than normal on Thursday. Zack Labe, a doctoral student at the University of California Irvine, explains what's driving the temperatures up.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Nabih Bulos of the Los Angeles Times, who has witnessed the evacuations of civilians from Aleppo, Syria.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with George Parker, political editor with the Financial Times, about the year ahead in Brexit plans, as Britain prepares to leave the European Union.

In the U.S., local jurisdictions choose whether to help with federal immigration enforcement, but in Canada and Mexico, it's different. Cooperation is expected.

Poetry critic Tess Taylor reviews House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson.

The prolific rapper and mentor recorded a song the day he got out of federal prison this May — and he's put out 10 projects this year. His secret? "Don't never drop your head," he says.

A male reader of the Barrington Times in Rhode Island wrote in complaining about yoga pants. To protest his letter, hundreds of people in yoga pants streamed past his house.

The singer and lyricist of The Seshen wrote the song "Distant Heart" about the loss of a friend. And while it comes from a place of loss, she says it carries her friend's joy and light, too.

Comic artist Steve Dillon died this weekend in New York City at the age of 54. He was responsible for some of the most iconic comics of the 1990s, including Hellblazer and Preacher.

Here & Now's Robin Young had a chance to speak with Hayden at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia this summer.