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Robert Siegel talks with the Carnegie Endowment's Iran researcher Karim Sadjapour about President Obama's comments to NPR.

Across the country and the world, people will ring in the New Year with rituals. Steve Inskeep reports on a few — including taking a plunge in to the freezing Irish Sea on New Year's Day.

A Blackfoot, Idaho, mother was fatally shot Tuesday by her two-year-old son. Robert Siegel talks to Blackfoot mayor Paul Loomis about the community's response and gun culture in the state.

The Global Language Monitor's Top Word of 2014 is not a word, it's an emoji of a heart. The company says the spread of pictures in place of words reflects a broader transformation of English.

Steve Inskeep shares listeners' picks for movies to watch over the New Year's holiday.

Egypt's high court has canceled the jail sentences of three Al-Jazeera journalists and ordered a retrial. The journalists say they were jailed for doing their jobs.

The actor says he's been able to do a lot of different things in his life. So when he sat down to write a memoir, he made it a "Choose Your Own Adventure." Originally broadcast October 13.

In which we learn how to prevent a hangover (drink water), cure a hangover (you can't) and good cocktails to ease you back into more drinking on New Year's Day.

Tesla Motors recently chose Nevada for its massive battery factory in exchange for one of the biggest incentives packages in recent history.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church observes Christmas on Jan. 7, and the 40 days prior are observed as a vegan fast. That means no dairy and no meat until the traditional dish of doro wat on Christmas Day.