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David Greene profiles an unlikely manufacturer in Los Angeles, for our "American Made" series. Julie B. is a toymaker who has had to adapt to stay in business. Her company moved from toys to art.

Steve Inskeep talks to Mary Mitchell, a Chicago Sun-Times columnist, about the firing of the police superintendent, a week after a video showed a white officer shooting a black teenager 16 times.

Two brothers blew themselves up in the Brussels bombings this week. There were also fraternal links in the Boston Marathon bombing, the Charlie Hebdo attacks and the rampage in Paris last November.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired the police superintendent, and he is ordering a top-to-bottom review of the department's system of oversight, accountability, training and transparency.

Social-emotional skills? Growth mindset? Grit? To see how students are doing in important areas beyond reading and math ... there's a survey for that.

Former Smiths frontman and lyricist Morrissey has won the annual award for the poorest quality writing about sex in his novel, List of the Lost. Past winners include Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe.

If one's true love bought everything mentioned in the song, "The 12 Days of Christmas," it would cost more than $34,000, according to PNC Wealth Management's annual Christmas Price Index.

Russian officials responded by announcing plans to halt joint projects with the small Balkan nation. The last countries to join NATO were Balkan states Albania and Croatia, in 2009.

Russia has previously alleged Turkish involvement in illegal oil trade with Islamist militants. Now Russian military officials are claiming that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is personally involved.

British forces are already conducting strikes in Iraq. The motion is expected to pass with the support of the ruling Conservative Party. But first, MPs will spend 10 hours swapping fierce rhetoric.