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Amid a surge in gun violence in Philadelphia, funeral directors are struggling to meet the demand for their services — including guiding families through their shock and grief.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Sam Quinones, whose book The Least of Us, details how much more plentiful meth and fentanyl have become in the wake of the country's opioid crisis.

Obstetrical emergency departments are a new aspect of some hospitals that can inflate medical bills for even the easiest, healthiest births. Just ask baby Gus' parents about their $2,755 ER charge.

A dozen European soccer clubs have announced plans to break away form their own "Super League." NPR's Noel King asks Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated why.

Day, a Illinois State University graduate student, was reported missing on Aug. 24. LaSalle County authorities say the manner in which he went into the Illinois River is currently unknown.

North Carolina's 14 electors gathered in Raleigh at noon to dutifully cast their ballots for George W. Bush. They were subject to some eleventh hour arm-twisting by Al Gore supporters, but to no avail. Bush won 56 percent of the state vote, and state law bars electors from voting for someone other than the person to whom they are pledged. That law was passed after the 1968 election, in which an elector pledged to Richard Nixon voted for George Wallace. Congress will officially count the 538 votes from around the nation on January 5.

NPR's Mike Shuster profiles Condoleezza Rice, the Stanford professor and foreign policy analyst who President-elect George W. Bush has named as his National Security Adviser. Rice was a Russian specialist in Bush's father's national security council. She also has been his foreign policy tutor throughout the campaign.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr, having read a new report from the CIA, wonders if the foreign policies of Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice will be applicable to the world they might face.

Robert talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden who's in Jerusalem about election politics in Israel, and the prospects of a return to power by former right-wing prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Commentator Steven Waldman says that this is a season of remarkable religious unity in the U.S. In the next few weeks Americans will celebrate: Hanukkah, Christmas, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice and Rohatsu, an important Buddhist holiday. Religious variety has flourished without it being seen as a horrible threat to any particular religion. Americans have gotten pretty good at figuring out how to be different without being divisive.