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Traders and financial professionals work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange ahead of the opening bell on Friday.

North Korea Has Markets Nervous But Not Panicked

Heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea sparked a sell-off this week on global stock markets, but the drop is less you might have expected given the potential stakes.

"I'm afraid there's a growing sense that the path to health is through testing," says Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, a Dartmouth Institute internist who has written books on the pitfalls of overdiagnosis. Encouraging the worried well to order their own blood tests feeds that mindset, he says.

DIY Blood Tests? There's A Downside To Ordering Your Own

It's legal to order diagnostic blood tests without consulting a doctor in many states. But critics say healthy patients can go down a rabbit hole of invasive assays and unnecessary treatments.

A Spanish riot police officer swings a club against would-be voters near a school assigned to be a polling station by the Catalan government in Barcelona, Spain on Sunday.

'Illegal' Independence Referendum Turns Violent As Police And Pro-Separatists Clash

"Horrible scenes," NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from Barcelona. "Police dragging voters out of polling stations, some by the hair."

Timothy Olyphant plays Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens on FX's Justified. The series finale airs tonight.

End Of FX's Excellent 'Justified' Highlights TV's Vanishing Westerns

FX's powerful modern-day Western 'Justified' airs its series finale tonight. NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans says its end underscores the decline of a once-powerful TV genre.

Creature creator Hiroshi Katagiri and Doug Jones showing off their creation for "Gehenna," a film in the final days of its Kickstarter campaign.

Help Bring Death To Life For FX Artist Hiroshi Katagiri

Creature creator and make up FX artist is in final days of Kickstarter

Reese Witherspoon in HBO's Big Little Lies. Witherspoon was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actress in a limited TV series or movie on Monday.

'Shape Of Water,' 'Big Little Lies' Snag Most Golden Globe Nominations

Guillermo del Toro's Cold War fantasy The Shape Of Water snagged the most motion picture nominations, followed by The Post and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Kylo Ren (played by Adam Driver) leads a group of stormtroopers in search of a map hidden inside a droid.

Staying Home New Year's Eve? Here's What To Watch

If you're planning a movie marathon or TV binge on New Year's Eve, we have some ideas about what to watch.

Oprah Winfrey, the first black woman to win the Cecil B. DeMille Award, spent most of her speech time at the 75th Golden Globes talking about the long fight for women's justice.

Activism Hits The Red Carpet And Oprah Hits A Home Run At The Golden Globes

Recent stories of sexual harassment and abuse in Hollywood inspired black dresses and unexpected guests at the Golden Globes. In the actual awards races, Three Billboards, Ladybird, and Amazon scored.

Jose Davalos of the Cinema Makeup School walks through the convention floor crowd dressed as the "Haunted Mansion" character "Hatbox Ghost" during Preview Night of the 2017 Comic-Con International on Wednesday, July 19, 2017.

San Diego Comic-Con Officially Kicks Off

Halle Barry, Colin Firth and Will Smith will be among the big-screen stars appearing at the San Diego Convention Center Thursday on the opening day of Comic-Con International, an annual celebration of pop culture.

Juggernauts Repeat At 2016 Emmys, But Fresh Faces Get Their Due

Game of Thrones, Veep and The People v. O.J. Simpson won for best drama, comedy and limited series — but some new names made splashes, too. NPR's pop culture crew live-tweeted the night's festivities.

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