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Ahead of the Jan. 5 election, voters across the state are being bombarded by messages from activists and politicians alike to cast their vote to help determine which party controls the U.S. Senate.

Analyst Evan Kohlmann talks with Renee Montagne about al-Qaida's public relations arm and multimedia production team, al-Sahab. The group produced a video that connected al-Qaida to the USS Cole bombing in 2000, and has since produced high-quality videos and audio tapes about al-Qaida's activities around the world.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to The New Yorker's Evan Osnos about his new profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with gay rights activist and Freedom to Marry founder Evan Wolfson about the same-sex marriage legislation moving through Congress.

Nebraska, one of the top beef producers, has one of the worst labor shortages in the nation. The incoming Trump administration has vowed to carry out mass deportations: how will Nebraska be affected?

American Reporter Evan Gershkovich was among the more than 20 prisoners exchanged by Russia, the U.S. and European countries.

The global economic system developed in an era of rapid population growth. With aging populations and people deciding to have smaller families, economists are raising concerns about future prosperity.

Emily Anderson Dunovantfield lived in Edgefield, South Carolina. She was well-educated and what many called a traditional woman. But during the early…

Emily Carter reads Cold Feet: A Christmas Story. It's about Samuel Kaminsky, a hip restaurant owner from Miami. He's sentenced to rehab in Minnesota, and he has a very bad attitude about it. He has contempt for the people in his Minneapolis recovery group and he thinks they wear really ugly shoes. His own shoes are elegant handmade Italian leather loafers, beautiful but entirely unable to keep out the Midwestern winter. On Christmas he's all alone, until he finds a drunken Santa present-laden, passed out in the snow. Kaminsky tries to finish delivering the Santa's presents as a way to secure an invitation to a fancy Christmas party. Instead, he finds redemption - and a pair of big, ugly, warm boots.

The new album Synthetica is the second to be released by the group's own distribution company, Metric Music International. "There's one band at the center of that whole organization — and it's us," says lead singer Emily Haines.