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Paris is on lock down Friday night after a series of bombings and gun attacks that are said to have killed more than 100 people.

NPR talks to Alain Barluet, foreign editor of Le Figaro, the national daily newspaper in France.

Kurdish forces have taken back the Iraqi city of Sinjar, after over 15 months of Islamic State occupation. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Kesling about the situation.

Sunday, there are three new winners of the Governors Award. The honorary Oscars were awarded last night to Spike Lee, Gena Rowlands and Debbie Reynolds.

Officers use "Stingrays" to mimic a cell phone tower and intercept information from phones in a whole neighborhood. The federal government and police have kept such devices under wraps for years.

A German company's technology will allow electric vehicles to charge while driving. Electrified wire coils can be embedded beneath the road — similar to the wireless charging stations for your phone.

Ever since the giant Shuttlecocks art exhibit was installed in the 1990s, Kansas City professional sports teams haven't been able to win a national championship. And there are some who believe the exhibit is to blame.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced a plan to start actively monitoring everyone arriving in the U.S. from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

The North Carolina coast may be the last place you'd think to find a sunken German submarine from World War II. But that's what Joe Hoyt — a nautical archeologist — found on a recent expedition to the ocean floor. Robert Siegel talks to him about the underwater battle site there.

NPR's Rachel Martin presents a timeline of the terror attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead and hundreds injured.