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Rolling blackouts and power shortages make it hard to get anything done in Africa — from cooking a hot breakfast to running a small business.

Dr. Patrick Pelloux talks about rushing to the hospital and treating those injured in the terrorist attacks in Paris last night. Pelloux was also a first responder when the satirical magazine he contributes to, Charlie Hebdo, was attacked earlier this year.

Candidates seem to find the question a conundrum — and a pressing one, with the presidential election a year away. So, NPR's Michel Martin asked students at Iowa's Drake University what they want.

University of Missouri football players take the field tonight days after many of them threatened not to play unless school president Tim Wolfe resigned. Wolfe stepped down on Tuesday amid a scandal over his handling of racial threats on campus.

This week Barbershop focuses on the Paris attacks. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Bridget Johnson of PJ Media, Abderrahim Foukara, Al Jazeera's Washington bureau chief, and Arsalan Iftikhar, an attorney and commentator.

The common practice, endorsed by WHO: give deworming medications to all kids at risk of intestinal worms. A new report questions if there's any real benefit.

Mallory Ortberg of The Toast will fill almost decade-old shoes for Slate's popular advice column, but not without getting advice first. Before she pays it forward, we seek her words on a timely issue.

Social activist Rokhaya Diallo says that French Muslims shouldn't be expected to answer for the violence in Paris because of their religion — and that they have felt the pain of the attacks, as well.

The terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday could be an early harbinger of a new, more professional kind of terrorist attack leveled against the West.

Less than a week since the death of a friend, and just days since the Paris killings, NPR's Michel Martin says the loss of life — be it in Beirut, Niger or even next door — must always matter.