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In 1960, "the first lady of song," Ella Fitzgerald, recorded the album that Murray Horwitz calls "his favorite Ella Fitzgerald performance of all time." Wishes You a Swinging Christmas includes classic holiday pieces by Irving Berlin and Mitchell Parish.

David Schmitz was more than surprised when he was invited on a local Des Moines, Iowa, radio show and received a surprise gift from his late wife, Brenda.

There's trouble in the town of Bad Göodsburg! A wishing well has stopped working! NPR's Tamara Keith talks with Jess Hannigan about her new children's book, "Spider in the Well."

U.S. retailers are looking to add more than 700,000 jobs this holiday season — about the same as last year. But retailers may have a harder time filling those jobs because of a shrinking labor pool.

NPR's Scott Simon recounts a recent encounter with a certain robust, white-bearded fellow in a red suit.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Yuki Tatsumi, senior associate of the East Asia program at the Stimson Center, about Emperor Akihito's video message to the people of Japan. In the broadcast, he said he wants to abdicate the throne — the first time in 200 years for an emperor to do so.

As the U.S. first moved into Iraq three years ago, many Iraqis supported an end to Saddam Hussein's regime, but expressed mixed feelings over a U.S.-led occupation. Now, with no end to violence in sight, Iraqis say they are disappointed and resent the U.S.'s handling of the insurgency. Still, few Iraqis say they want to see the former dictator returned to power.

Video games will not save education and other misconceptions about where schools are headed.

Live on YouTube, Bob Boilen and Gina Chavez watched their favorites entries to the 2020 Contest and discussed what made them stand out from the thousands we saw this year.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued a wave of record requests to eight federal agencies, including any communications by Rudy Giuliani and Ivanka Trump.