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  • Crew work to put finishing touches on the stage a day ahead of the third and final presidential debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla.
    Tonight, Obama, Romney Take On Foreign Policy In Third And Final Debate
    With controversy over Libya brewing and the polls showing the race virtually tied just two weeks before Nov. 6, the foreign policy debate promises to be fiery.
  • Steve Darcis of Belgium, left, shakes hands with Rafael Nadal of Spain Monday, after winning their first-round match at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
    Rafael Nadal Loses In First-Round Upset At Wimbledon
    After winning the French Open earlier this month, Rafael Nadal falls early at Wimbledon, losing to Belgium's Steve Darcis, ranked No. 135 in the world. It's the first loss for Nadal in the opening round of a Grand Slam.
  • Shoppers walk through Macy's in New York on Black Friday last month. Retail sales declined 1.1% in November, according to the Commerce Department.
    U.S. Retail Spending Declined The Most Since Historic Plunge In April
    Retail sales dipped 1.1% in November compared with a month earlier as new coronavirus surges restricted outings to stores and especially restaurants.
  • More than 6.9 million people worldwide have been infected since the first reported case of the coronavirus late last year.
    Global COVID-19 Deaths Surpass 400,000
    The United States — at more than 109,000 — accounts for more than a quarter of global deaths from COVID-19. More than 6.9 million worldwide have been infected with the coronavirus.
  • Spanish-Speaking Iowan Works As Interpreter For Presidential Hopefuls
    Ernest Nino-Murcia came to America from Colombia when he was 6 years old. He didn't speak a word of English. Fast forward 30 years — he's on the stump in Iowa with GOP and Democratic presidential hopefuls acting as an interpreter.
  • Skywatch for the week of November 1, 2021
  • Imogen Davis catches Rufus, a Harris hawk, in the stands above Centre Court at Wimbledon. Rufus scares off pigeons who try to eat the ryegrass on the tennis courts.
    Pigeons Fly In Fear As Rufus The Hawk Guards Wimbledon's Grass
    At the tennis tournament this year, as in years past, a Harris hawk named Rufus has been soaring above the stadium. His job is to keep pigeons from trespassing onto the iconic grass on Centre Court.
  • The Plot Thickens with a Generic Blood Thinner
    A small Canadian firm takes on two of the largest drug companies in the world with its surprise launch of a generic copy of the best-selling blood thinner Plavis. Apotex began shipping its generic version to U.S. stores today. The makers of Plavix sold $6 billion of the popular heart drug last year.
  • eBay Buys Net Phone Provider Skype
    Internet auction provider eBay agrees to buy Skype. eBay will pay $2.6 billion in cash and stock for the Internet calling service, in hopes that it will boost communication between buyers and sellers.
  • Latest Readings From Three-Minute Fiction
    More than 6,000 original stories were submitted to this round of Three-Minute Fiction. We're on the quest to select just one winner. Until then, we'll be reading a few of the stories that catch our eyes. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz presents this week's stand out stories: Exercise by India DeCarmine of Babylon, N.Y., and Letting Go by Graham Sanders from Oregon City, Ore. To see these stories and others go to npr.org/threeminutefiction.
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