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Najaf in southern Iraq is beginning to feel the pain of neighboring Iran's economic woes. Business around Shiite sites, which usually draw scores of Iranians for the holy days of Ashura, is way down.

The final performance of the Tuesday Musical Club's 100th Artist Series season brought tenor Lawrence Brownlee to town. Performing in front of an enthusiastic crowd, he and pianist Kevin Miller shared new music from their "Rising" album, featuring contemporary Black composers, classics and hidden gems of Italian opera, and a beautiful gospel tune for an encore. Hear the full show at the link!

The idea is to use a bowl — playing off the roundness, the curve of the vessel — to layer food into one satisfying meal.

Deb Perelman, creator of the hugely popular Smitten Kitchen website, whips up some budget-conscious, vegetable-centric Thanksgiving side dishes. Her new cookbook is Smitten Kitchen Keepers.

With traffic down at stores and malls across the nation during the pandemic, the charity's iconic red-kettle campaign might bring in half the donations compared with last year.

Until his arrest in 2004, nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan — the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb — ran a vast smuggling network that sent nuclear materiel to Iran and Libya. In his book Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemies, weapons expert David Albright explains how Khan's network continues to threaten global security.

For many families, 2020 ended up being a year with fewer child care expenses. Now parents with unspent funds in their dependent care flexible spending accounts are trying to figure out what to do.

Tax Day is less than a week away. The Government Accountability Office examined the work of 19 paid tax preparers – 17 got things wrong.

American bank regulators unveiled the final version of the so-called Volcker Rule, which prohibits banks from trading stocks, bonds and derivatives for their own accounts. For more, Steve Inskeep speaks to NPR's Jim Zarroli.

Noah talks to Jayetta Hecker, associate director for the National Security and International Affairs Division of the General Accounting Office. They talk about the GAO report released today that describes near-perfect counterfeit $100 bills which have been in circulation in the Middle East. The first of these "Superdolars" were found in the early 1990s. They are much better fakes than most counterfeit money because they are printed on rag cotton paper using a printing method similar to the one used by the U.S. Treasury.