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Taiwan's official government news agency said Tuesday that Chinese President Xi Jinping would meet Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in Singapore this weekend. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Shelley Rigger, a professor at Davidson College and author of Why Taiwan Matters, about the meeting's significance. She says the timing of the meeting could have grave consequences for Taiwan's president.

Novelist, screenwriter and film producer Mollie Gregory speaks to NPR's Rachel Martin about her new book, Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story, and the women who can do anything!

Map: Exploring the World is a new collection of maps, selected by an international panel of cartographers, academics and collectors, spanning everything from the Aztecs to modern digital imaging.

They say Democrats are trying to score political points and have thrown their weight behind a GOP alternative that requires a judge to block such gun sales.

Registering to vote in Kansas requires proof of U.S. citizenship. This requirement has produced a large list of would-be voters. Now, one official wants that list purged — and a fight has followed.

Jury deliberations have begun in the case of Baltimore police officer William Porter who faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter for the death of Freddie Gray.

Sidibe is a fan of NPR's Invisibilia, which explores the unseen forces that shape human behavior. Her favorite episode, "Entanglement," profiles a woman who has synesthesia.

Plans for the transcontinental canal to be built across Nicaragua have been placed on hold. Opposition is growing and the main Chinese backer has lost a large percent of his wealth in the downturn of the stock exchange.

Earlier this month, 8-year-old burn victim Safyre Terry shared a Christmas wish: to fill her Christmas card holder with as many cards as she could. After her request went viral, she received some 300,000 cards and gifts from around the world.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with a young mother on the Syrian-Turkish border about the situation there.