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Filmmaker Fatih Akin says he made In the Fade to spotlight something terrorism stories often overlook: the victims. It follows a woman whose husband and 6-year old son have been murdered by neo-Nazis.

Only 41 "war on terror" captives remain at the prison camps on the U.S. navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Roughly a third of them are being held there at Camp 7, a lockup so secret that its very location is classified. Known as "high value detainees." they all underwent brutal interrogations in secret CIA prisons elsewhere. Now a military judge is letting some of their lawyers visit Camp 7 for the first, and possibly only, time.

Voting continues Wednesday for you to decide the top political story of the year. After the first round of voting, there are 32 stories left with some big match ups ahead.

It's cold outside, but we've got 50 Wonderful Things from 2017 listed on our blog. Plus, the Pop Culture Happy Hour panel digs into some of the stuff that made it a year worth watching and reading.

Naomi Alderman's new novel imagines a world in which women suddenly pose a physical threat to men. Alderman says it was gratifying to imagine how characters might use that power to fight back.

NPR's favorite visual stories of the year include political news events, a solar eclipse, and hurricanes along with stories about education, music and comics.

What's the biggest political story of the year? It's too hard to decide. You can vote in our March Madness-style contest of 64 eye-popping stories that made waves in 2017.

Ask the Trump administration, and Iran is a country not to be trusted. But another U.S. president made a nuclear deal with Iran, and some U.S. allies are eager to do business with the country.

The year has been filled with numerous political stories. How would you even go about ranking them? Our political team borrows the bracket idea from college basketball's tournament.

The new year is less than a week away, and it's good time to look back over the past political headlines from 2017. And, a suicide bomber blew himself up near the Afghan Intelligence Agency in Kabul.