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Big-time college football is headed for a playoff. On Tuesday, university presidents agreed to a four team playoff system that will result in a national champion, doing away with the BCS. All Things Considered host Melissa Block talks with NPR's Tom Goldman about the move

Inocente has every reason to be dark and grim. The 15-year-old from San Diego has been homeless most of her life. However, the aspiring artist chooses to live a life in full, vibrant color. Audie Cornish speaks with filmmaker Sean Fine about Inocente, the Oscar-nominated short documentary he co-directed with his wife, Andrea Nix Fine.

Tuesday night the city council in Stockton, Calif., is expected to clear they way for the city to declare bankruptcy. It will be the largest municipal bankruptcy ever for a city that is a poster child for the housing crisis.

Even setting aside the investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller and other federal prosecutors, Washington had more than its usual list of scandals in 2018.

The Down Jones Industrial average has suffered its worst Christmas Eve performance. How is President Trump reacting? Israel's government wants to move up its elections from Nov. 2019 to April.

Activists say hundreds of Syrians, perhaps more than a thousand, have been killed in President Bashar al-Assad's brutal offensive. The situation may be about to get worse; food and medical supplies are growing short as the violence mounts.

The $600 unemployment benefit set to expire this month helped keep families afloat, says Georgetown University's Indivar Dutta-Gupta. Without it, they face serious hardship, and the economy will slow.

In the finale of the first season of Play It Forward, Ari Shapiro speaks to dubstep pioneer Mala about minimalism, freedom and an artist he was inspired by, the late Augustus Pablo.

President Trump gave a foreign investment agency an unusual task: Give loans to domestic companies to help refill the depleted U.S. medical stockpile. House appropriators want an independent review.

We have the latest from the National Transportation Safety Board on its investigation of the Asiana jet crash in San Francisco.