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There's Black Friday and Cyber Monday and, in some places, a single day dedicated to getting people to give to local nonprofits. In Lancaster County, Penn., they call it the Extraordinary Give — 24 hours of events designed to entice donations to arts groups, charities and other nonprofits.

Thousands of Americans are still deployed overseas in Afghanistan and Iraq. A few soldiers from Fort Campbell returned home on Thursday after a nine month deployment to Afghanistan.

The Republican presidential candidates are all making their pitches at the Sunshine Summit in Florida on Friday. NPR explores what is on most of voters minds and what they make of the candidates so far.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Jessica Lewis McFate, research director at the Institute for the Study of War, about what needs to be done after ISIS is kicked out of a city to keep it from coming back.

The writer, whose Between The World And Me was the winner of this year's National Book Award in nonfiction, talks about his process and the classmate and friend to whom he dedicated the award.

Is there a role for NATO in the response to the Paris attacks? NPR's Rachel Martin asks James Stavridis, NATO's former supreme allied commander for Europe.

Charlie Watts spent nearly 60 years playing drums for The Rolling Stones. He was known as an unflappable drummer. He died in a hospital in London, surrounded by family.

The documentary Frame by Frame tells the story of four photographers working in Afghanistan. NPR's Rachel Martin talks with director Alexandria Bombach and, from Kabul, photojournalist Farzana Wahidy.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Diana Moskovitz of Deadspin about the previously unreleased documentation of a meeting between lawyers for Dallas Cowboys player Greg Hardy and the NFL.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Councilman Craig Rice and student Julia Angel about public schools in Montgomery County, Md., opening without police officers for the first time in 19 years.