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  • First Woman Named CEO Of Brazil's State Oil Co.
    The Brazilian state oil company has a new chief executive and her name is Maria das Gracas Foster. Petrobras is the world's fifth-largest oil producer, and Foster becomes the first woman to run a top-five oil company. This comes as the firm looks to double its production by 2020. The company's stocks surged on news of the appointment.
  • Rescuer Goes Out On A Limb To Save Cat
    In Erie, Pa., firefighters rescued a cat and the woman who tired to get it out of a tree. Stuck in the top branches was Tara Dennis, according to the Erie Times-News.
  • LIVE CHAT: Join NPR's Politics Team For The Republican Debates
    The top 10 candidates, as determined by Fox, took the stage together for the first time at 9 p.m. ET. The other seven debated earlier, at 5 p.m. ET.
  • A Family Dollar store is seen on July 28, 2014, in Hallandale, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
    Dollar General Makes $9.7 Billion Bid For Family Dollar
    The offer from Dollar General tops an earlier bid from another dollar store, Dollar Tree, for the same company last month.
  • Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker thanks supporters at the Sangamon County Democratic Party Headquarters on Monday, December 10, 2018. He was flanked by county party chair and Springfield Ald. Doris Turner, left, and Lt. Gov.-elect Juliana Stratton, right.
    On Legalizing Pot, Pritzker Says 'Get At It'
    Illinois Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker is making legalizing marijuana one of his top priorities.
  • Efforts To Free Japanese ISIS Captive 'Deadlocked'
    A top Japanese diplomat says indirect negotiations to free a captive journalist from the militant Islamic State group have reached a "state of deadlock."
  • Heart Emoji Got Much Attention In 2014
    The Global Language Monitor's Top Word of 2014 is not a word, it's an emoji of a heart. The company says the spread of pictures in place of words reflects a broader transformation of English.
  • Hasselhoff Photos Stolen From Store's Ad Campaign
    Cumberland Farms put giant photo cutouts of David Hasselhoff in front of their stores across New England and Florida. The 60-year-old star of Baywatch and Knight Rider is shown smiling, wearing a tank top and promoting iced coffee. Of 570 photos, roughly 550 have been stolen.
  • British Burger Is Hot, Red Hot
    A new burger in Britain is topped with chillies that pack 40 times the heat of the average Tabasco sauce. The Fallout Burger is on sale at Atomic Burger in Bristol. It registers a million on the Scoville Scale which scientists use to determine chili heat.
  • Forty-four states, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, participate in the Powerball lottery.
    Powerball Pot At Record $800 Million — And Growing
    Before the next drawing, on Saturday night, experts say the lottery could top $1 billion.
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