Morning Edition Returns: Holiday Lights

Published December 3, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

May your days be as merry and bright as those in Blue Earth, Minnesota and McAdenville, North Carolina -- a pair of places where seasonal decorating is serious business.

National & International News

The fall of an enclave in Azerbaijan stuns the Armenian diaspora, shattering a dream

The Associated Press

The swift fall of the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani troops and exodus of much of its population has stunned the large Armenian diaspora around the world.
The White House chief of staff says it's on House Republicans to avert a shutdown

Asma Khalid

Jeff Zients has been getting the White House prepared for the first government shutdown of the Biden administration. Here's what the chief of staff told NPR about it.
National & International News

A 16-year-old boy was arrested in England over the felling of an iconic tree

The Associated Press

Thousands see the tree each year as they walk along Hadrian's Wall, which guarded the Roman Empire's northwestern frontier. It appeared in Kevin Costner's 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.