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The political party that runs Pakistan's parliament announces Saturday the candidate it wants to become the country's new prime minister: Yousaf Raza Gilani. He is likely to assume the post on Monday.

In the last weeks of the Trump administration, the U.S. is moving to close a two-decade chapter and withdraw from Afghanistan, causing great apprehension among Afghans as the Taliban step up attacks.

Boeing's deal to plead guilty to a federal criminal fraud charge in relation to two 737 Max crashes has not quieted anger from victims' families. Legal issues for the troubled plane maker continue.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Matthew Wilson, Associate Professor of political science at Southern Methodist University about the divide in United Methodist Church over sexuality and gender identity.

The United States is in an "epidemic of loneliness," according to the surgeon general. And while social media is often blamed for making people feel more alone, a handful of new apps are trying to help people make new connections.

The four are set to dock with the space station on Saturday, returning the orbital lab to its full complement of seven. NASA's last mission, Crew-11, left a month early due to an ill crew member.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan remembers the veteran NYC newsman, who died Aug. 5, as "a tenement kid and high school drop out who never lost connection to where he came from."

Emptier grocery store shelves are helping to cultivate a growing interest in home gardening.

Some 26 people were arrested, and a non-fatal shooting reported, after protesters smashed windows and set fires. Reporters say the damage came from a group of "anarchists" within a crowd of thousands.

Amid their recent victory, people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline are huddling in shelters in North Dakota as a brutal winter storm bears down on them.