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The Lady in the Van is the true story of a homeless woman who moved into a playwright's driveway for three weeks and stayed for 15 years. NPR film critic Bob Mondello says it's both funny and frail.

The shootings in San Bernardino have raised a familiar question, one that a linguist and a political scientist say keeps coming up because the line can be tough to draw.

An Illinois school district came to an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education and voted to allow a transgender student, born a male, access to the girls' locker room.

For the poor, a court fine — for a minor infraction like a traffic ticket — can be much more difficult to pay than for the rich. The White House brought together a group to talk about solutions.

As the climate change conference opened in Paris, ads appeared around the city, many from sponsors of the conference — or were they? The ads looked genuine, but the messages were a bitingly satirical.

Donald Trump appeared before the Republican Jewish Coalition, joking about Jewish stereotypes. The audience received those rather well, but was not as receptive to his political views about Israel.

A banner over the Bonne Bière cafe's awning reads "Je Suis En Terrasse" — I'm on the terrace — a defiant message that spread in the days after the Nov. 13 attack.

The agency also revised October's expectations-beating figure even higher, saying that 298,000 jobs had been created — the most in all of 2015.

This week's show takes a look at the latest from Pixar — both the somewhat disappointing feature and the awesome short — and we consider the times we've changed our minds.

Germany will send six Tornado jets, a naval frigate and up to 1,200 soldiers to Syria. But it will not be conducting airstrikes.