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From member station WBGO Andrew Meyer reports that five police officers in Orange, New Jersey have been found guilty of civil rights violations in the beating and pepper-spraying of a man wrongly suspected of killing a officer.

NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports that Eva Cassidy a Washington, D.C., singer who died two years ago, has since become something of a star in Britain and a cult favorite in the United States.

NPR's Mary Ann Akers reports that the Bridgestone/Firestone company is blaming a faulty tire design and manufacturing processes at an Illinois factory for defective tires linked to 148 traffic deaths. After a four-month investigation, the tire maker cited the design of the 15-inch ATX tires and the unique way the rubber was processed at its Decatur, Illinois, plant. But the report also puts some blame on the Ford Explorer. Many of the accidents involved Explorers fitted with the Firestone tires. The report says Ford's recommended pressure for the tires was too low.

Ann McBride Norton sends us an audio postcard from China. It's from the Yunnan province, where she encounters the last of the Dongbas, priests for the ancient animist religion of the Naxi people, an ethnic minority living in the Yunnan. There are only two men left. Both are in their 80s and know the pictographic language of the Naxi culture. They spend their days translating the language, and are looking to train students so as to preserve the language after they die.

NPR's Debbie Elliott reports that Exxon Mobil Corporation has been ordered to pay the state of Alabama nearly 3-and-a-half billion dollars in punitive damages. An Alabama circuit court jury found the company had deliberately underpaid on its natural gas leases off the Alabama coast.

It's a joyless Christmas in Bethlehem. Amid the continuing "intifada", there are few pilgrims and no tourists. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Washington Post writer Henry Allen about his new book, What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century. It's a series of impressionistic vignettes of life in the 1900's, decade by decade. (7:18) What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century is published by Pantheon Books; ISBN: 0375420630.

NPR's Joe Palca reports on today's partial eclipse of the sun. It's the first time since 1954 that there's been a partial solar eclipse on Christmas Day, but the last eclipse was only visible in South Africa. Today's partial eclipse will be visible across North America. More information on times the eclipse will be visible in your area is on the NPR website.

Commentator Ev Ehrlich deconstructs the Christmas song, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Jody Becker of Chicago Public Radio reports a number of charities are looking to the world wide web to help raising funds. But it's hardly a gold mine, and groups hoping for e-donations are finding it will take some time before it will make up a sizable part of their income.

NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports Leslie Rudd owner of Dean & Deluca, is trying to bring the success of the high-tech business world to his home-state of Kansas. Rudd has started a fund that provides investment capital to students from Kansas Universities.

Commentator Meghan Daum gives us her tips on how to prepare the perfect Turkey.

NPR's David Molpus reports on the decreasing level of worker loyalty in companies across the U.S.

Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about the changes likely to come in the new political season.

The Forest Landowners Association wants Congress help landowners recover their lands and losses.

Companies with at least 100 employees must ensure their workers get a COVID-19 vaccine or undergo weekly testing. Some 17 million health care workers face a vaccine mandate with no testing option.

The new song with Caroline Polachek & Christine and the Queens twists its bubbly, side-pony pastiche into something more mournful.

Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig says President Trump froze key federal agencies, including the FBI and Dept. of Defense, whose job it was to investigate and stop threats to national security.

Companies from Mondelēz to McDonald's are raising prices to offset higher costs for transportation and because of labor and other problems along the supply chain.

The people who gathered in Tallahassee want lawmakers to ban all vaccination and mask mandates, whether they come from government or private businesses.

After months of waiting, many parents of kids ages 5 to 11 expressed relief and joy when the CDC gave its recommendation for Pfizer's vaccine to be made available to that age group.

Hindus in India and across the world are celebrating Diwali, the five-day festival of lights. Here's what celebrations look like across India.

NASA should work toward a new space telescope that could view small planets around distant stars with the potential to host life, expert panel says

Hospitals and doctors are facing more demands for ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment, despite no proof it works. In some Republican-dominated states, lawmakers and attorney generals are weighing in.