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To help get excited kids to bed early on New Year's Eve, Netflix is offering videos of countdowns. It could work — trick the little ones into thinking it's already midnight.

More than half the shelter residents who are seeking asylum asked to move. But they are staying after Swedish authorities said there was nowhere else to go.

President Obama appears on Jerry Seinfeld's online show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Sample question: "How many world leaders do you think are just completely out of their mind?"

A few cities, including Paris and Brussels, have canceled fireworks over fears of terrorist attacks. But in most of the world's major cities, celebrations are going forward as planned.

The former Florida governor offered up a theory on Donald Trump, which has provoked a lively debate on social media, in a year-ending interview with NPR News.

The topics range from knowing our bodies — exploring mysteries of "lost posture" and how well your ears register audio quality — to stories of our times, such as gay marriage and political paranoia.

Parks and Recreation colleagues Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang initially bonded over their experiences as Asian-Americans living very different lives from their parents. Originally broadcast Nov. 5, 2015.

Broadcast date: 12/29/2015It's that time of year again-- a time of wrapping up, of taking stock, of making new years resolutions. But are these year-end…

Some who have been advocating to reduce prison terms for nonviolent drug criminals privately tell NPR they are beginning to worry nothing will happen in 2016.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Puerto Rico Rep. Luis Vega Ramos about what will happen when the commonwealth defaults on its nearly $37 million worth of debt.