Steve Inskeep

Seahawks receiver DK Metcalf is learning American Sign Language and using it in his touchdown celebrations. We hear from his ASL instructor.

A two-day European Union summit begins with future aid for Ukraine in doubt.

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds marathon Q&A session. The Supreme Court will hear a case about access to abortion pills. The prosecution rests in the Trump civil fraud trial.

Empirical Spirits pitched the idea of whipping nacho chips into alcohol to the makers of Doritos. And now — for just $65 — you too can partake of liquor that smells and tastes like cheese dust.

The NFL will hold a regular season game in São Paulo, Brazil, next year. The League says Brazil is an important market, with more than 38 million fans. The league has had games in the UK ad Germany.

One of the most reliable and prolific meteor showers of the years continues its peak tonight. The Geminid {JEH-mih-nid} display delivers up to 120 shooting stars per hour.

The Supreme Court says it will hear arguments next year on the availability of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions.

The House will vote Wednesday on formalizing the impeachment inquiry into President Biden that Republicans began earlier this year.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to the Federated States of Micronesia's President Wesley Simina {sim-min-AH} about delayed aid money from Congress, under a decades-old agreement with the Pacific islands.

An orphaned sea otter pup was wounded, dehydrated and malnourished when people in Seward, Alaska, found him. He was taken on a cross-country trip and now has a new home at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks the president of the American Council on Education, Ted Mitchell, about rights and limits to free speech on college campuses.

The House is set to vote on formalizing an impeachment inquiry. Biden makes critical comments about Israel's response to Hamas. Alabama plans to execute a prisoner using nitrogen gas.

Soup kitchens and homeless shelters are struggling to keep up with demand, even as volunteering is on the decline.

President Biden says the Israeli government needs to keep an open mind to how Gaza is governed after the fighting there stops.

After two decades, an event once called "the Super Bowl of video games," has been canceled. And this time, the Electronic Entertainment Expo is gone for good.

Four Republican presidential primary candidates took the stage Wednesday night in Alabama. This was the last debate before the Iowa caucuses in January.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will leave Congress at the end of the month. For more than a decade he's represented people in the area of Bakersfield, Calif.

Israel wants the United Nations and international community to do more about its evidence of sexual violence by militants in the Hamas attack on Oct. 7.

Four GOP presidential candidates debated in Alabama. Israel says the U.N. has been slow to speak out about reports of sexual violence in the Hamas attack. Ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is retiring.

Ukraine's counteroffensive has resulted in little battlefield gains. Sen. Tuberville drops hold on military promotions. Four of the remaining GOP presidential candidates debate Wednesday night.