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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., who attended Tuesday's briefing by CIA Director Gina Haspel regarding the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Few coffee aficionados are putting a Mr. Coffee machine on their wish list. But 40 years ago, it would've been at the top. The appliance revolutionized the quality and speed of home brewing.

Two top running backs, Stanford's Christian McCaffrey and LSU's Leonard Fournette, have said they won't play in their respective bowl games in order to start preparations for the NFL draft.

There's a form of railroad travel that few people ever see: private railroad cars, which attach to normally-scheduled Amtrak trains and pull riders paying top-dollar across the country. Jordan Salama took a ride on one, traveling between Chicago and Huntington, W.V., to bring us the story of these "yachts on rails."

Because U.S. efforts to capture or kill key al-Qaida figures have been so effective, some say the group's core could collapse if a few more members are eliminated. Others say al-Qaida affiliates are gathering strength, and any victory over the core will be a hollow one.

For many young readers, Dahl is a beloved author. But to Lucy Dahl, he's also Dad. "Matilda was one of the most difficult books for him to write," she says. "I think that there was a deep genuine fear within his heart that books were going to go away and he wanted to write about it."

The presidential vote was held in April. The two-man runoff came on June 14. Preliminary results expected Wednesday have been delayed as one candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, claims widespread fraud.

Climate change is already creating new winners among Europe's winemaking regions. (Great bubbly from Britain — who knew?) But those changes have also put in doubt the rules and traditions that have defined the continent's top winemakers for centuries.

The former Pennsylvania senator is getting in the race for president again. Here's a reminder of who he is.

The giant, metal, hot-water urns are at the center of Russian tea culture — and national identity. How that came to be may have as much to do with Russian literature as common usage.