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There are more than 2 million women veterans in the U.S. NPR spoke with six of them to find out what their service means to them.

Notaro's new show "One Mississippi" debuts on Amazon today, turning her year of death and loss into comedy again.

Austin and Denver are two cities vying to be the location for Amazon's second headquarters. The deadline to submit an application to the company is today.

Also: a new short story from Romesh Gunesekera; Patricia Cornwell on why she might have been an archaeologist.

David Greene talks to eBay CEO John Donahoe about the political battle over online sales tax. On Monday, the Senate is expected to vote on a bill that would end the free ride that consumers have enjoyed when shopping online. The Marketplace Fairness Act would require online retailers to collect sales tax from customers, and pay them to states where customers live — just like brick and mortar stores.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he doesn't want the money — unless it comes with an apology from French President Emmanuel Macron.

Also: The bench in Amsterdam where the main characters sit in the film adaptation of John Green's The Fault in Our Stars is missing; a new poem by Joel Brouwer.

Broad swaths of the Amazon Rainforest burned this year. An NPR correspondent met one character deep in the rainforest who told him something that didn't end up in a radio story but stuck with him.

South Carolina is the latest state to debate a six-week abortion ban. The state's Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday.

Formal home addresses can be difficult to find on many Native American reservations. This is problematic, not just when giving directions or receiving packages, but when responding to an emergency.