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Yahoo goes on the block Monday. The tech company will accept bids for its Internet businesses, properties estimated to be worth billions of dollars. Despite its reputation as a digital dinosaur, Yahoo is the third most trafficked site on the web. NPR looks at users who have stuck with Yahoo.

The tie-up between two of the four nationwide wireless carriers is the latest in the web of consolidation, spurned offers and spin-offs that are increasingly interlinking telecom and media industries.

No, you are not hearing things. Without fanfare, NPR in the last year has begun to rerun some features across its shows. Most were labeled on-air as encores, but some, like one on Texas barbecue, weren't. There are good reasons to repeat a particularly good story from another show, but a rerun should be labeled as such. Some folks question the rerun practice altogether.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Rod West, group president of Entergy utility operations, which provides power to New Orleans and throughout Louisiana. He discusses the city's power outages.

On the new female-driven TV series, Oh (Sideways, Grey's Anatomy) has landed a darkly comic lead role that she says was 30 years in the making.

Hackers are putting lives at risk at hundreds of hospitals across the United States. According to a new report from Microsoft, ransomware attacks on healthcare have gone up over 300% since 2015.

Carl Zimmer wondered what secrets lurked in his genetic code — so he decided to have his genome sequenced. He writes about the implications of the study of genetics in She Has Her Mother's Laugh.

JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes outlines what steps the airline is taking to combat the spread of coronavirus on flights.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with New York Magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss about leaving the publication. He's the longest serving editor in the magazine's history, a job he's held for 15 years.

When Iraq was rapidly fracturing this summer, the Kurds started talking about independence that they've been seeking for a century. But now, the priority seems to be battling the Islamic State.