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Jang Song Thaek, who had been a key figure in helping his nephew consolidate power after his father's death, was executed after being found guilty of treason.

NPR's Howard Berkes introduces us to Patricia Sullivan of Missoula, Montana, whose job it is to write descriptions of web sites on the world wide web.

General Assembly offers high-tech training face to face. Google and the Department of Education are paying attention.

An app based around a single word, a phone from Amazon that helps you buy stuff from Amazon and details about Apple's expected wrist candy. All that and more in the week's tech news.

Rocco has asked Alexa to deliver fruit, light-bulbs and a kite. Rocco is Marion Wischnewski's African grey parrot. He was adopted by Marion after he cursed too much at an animal sanctuary.

The top local stories this morning from KERA News: Thousands of students across North Texas are expected to walk out of school Friday as part of the…

Broad swaths of the Amazon Rainforest burned this year. An NPR correspondent met one character deep in the rainforest who told him something that didn't end up in a radio story but stuck with him.

This marks the second loss for the upstart Amazon Labor Union, which previously formed Amazon's first unionized U.S. warehouse in Staten Island. Amazon is still fighting that historic first union win.

Even before the synod began, traditionalists were angered by the suggestion that, to offset a shortage of priests in the Amazon, married men might be ordained to serve in remote communities.

Amazon on Friday debuts a comedy about an American man and Irish woman united by an unexpected pregnancy. NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans says it's a wonderful, fresh vision of romance on TV.