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Thursday's GDP report shows the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.6% in July, August and September, after shrinking in the first half of the year.

Two reports out today criticize the U.S. counterterrorism drone program and claim that the attacks kill many more civilians than the U.S. has acknowledged. The group Human Rights Watch studied six cases in Yemen. Amnesty International examined drone strikes in Pakistan during the past year and a half. Both groups accuse the U.S. of violating international law, and call on the U.S. to make the secret drone program more transparent to the public.

The war involving the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has created the world's largest humanitarian disaster, a leading hunger agency says. The major city of el-Fasher has been particularly hard-hit.

Twenty-five years after wolves were reintroduced to Idaho, state lawmakers want most of the animals killed, despite different advice from wildlife managers.

In Montana's Centennial Valley, conservationists made a grievous mistake while trying to save the trumpeter swan — they nearly wiped out Arctic grayling. Now they're looking for ways to make sure both species get a place on the ark.

The safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, designed specifically for koalas, has previously been tested by vaccinating a few hundred koalas brought to wildlife rescue centers for other afflictions.

It took 20 years to get a piece of land in Georgia ready to host endangered woodpeckers. U.S. Fish and Wildlife recently approved moving some of the birds to the site. (Story aired on ATC on 1/2/24.)

s Wall Street worries about the effects of high inflation and a potential recession, company forecasts will give investors a better sense of where the U.S. economy may be heading.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Linda Lakhdhir of Human Rights Watch, about the significance of Myanmar's release of the two Reuters reporters who had been sentenced to 7 years in prison.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks to Eli Hager, a reporter for The Marshall Project, about his recent piece on the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.