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A woman had become barely verbal, an effect of dementia. Her daughter, an opera singer, decided to try singing Christmas songs with her, and they reconnected.

The Fraser fir is found in a lot of homes around Christmas. But its wild cousins have been in decline for almost a century because of a small invasive pest.

NPR tells the exclusive, behind-the-scenes story of the first person with a genetic disorder to be treated in the United States with the revolutionary gene-editing technique CRISPR.

"It is injustice that turns them away from places where they might have hope for a dignified life, but instead find themselves before walls of indifference," the pontiff said in his holiday address.

"We really wanted to communicate with her and play with her," says Jill McNeil, who lives across the street. "Since she couldn't learn our language, we thought we wanted to learn hers."

As a late entrant in the Democratic presidential primary, Michael Bloomberg is not campaigning in the first primary states and is instead marshaling his billions of dollars into advertising.

In these binary times, it might not surprise anyone that people can't even agree on when one period of time ends and another begins.

It's "open season on Jews," one New York City council member said in the wake of violence in Brooklyn this week. The attacks come as Jews around the world celebrate Hanukkah.

As tens of thousands of people struggle to rebuild their homes and lives in the Philippines, officials say the number of casualties is expected to rise.

Many of the victims were students. It's one of the deadliest attacks in Somalia in recent years. No one claimed responsibility but al-Shabab has carried out similar attacks in the past.