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In downtown Louisville, Ky., events paid tribute to Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed by police last March.

On the United Nations' new Planetary Pressures-Adjusted Human Development Index, the United States drops 45 places from its overall ranking, a reflection of the country's outsize environmental impact.

A former Columbus, Ohio, police officer was indicted for killing an unarmed man in December. Adam Coy, who is White, is expected to plead not guilty in the killing of Andre Hill, who was Black.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Rashad Robinson, the president of the racial justice advocacy group Color of Change, about Biden's pledge to improve accountability for law enforcement.

Both victims survived the shootings, which happened just blocks apart this week. Federal prosecutors filed two hate crimes charges against the shooter on Friday.

Kaouther Adimi's novel tells the real-life story of Edmond Charlot, the Algerian bookseller and publisher who witnessed his country's independence struggle — and famously discovered Albert Camus.

A new book by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn is an agonizing account of how apathy and cruelty have turned America into a nightmare for many less fortunate citizens. But it is not without hope.

What price love? In Lara, Anna Pasternak chronicles her famous great-uncle Boris's relationship with his mistress, Olga Ivinskaya — whose connection with the author landed her in the gulags.

President-elect Barack Obama says he is "certain" his staff had no role in the filling of his former Senate seat. The remarks came in a news conference called to name former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle as his secretary of health and human services.

Sue Monk Kidd's new novel, The Invention of Wings, is a fictionalized account of the abolitionist sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké, and the slave Hetty, given to Sarah on her 11th birthday. Reviewer Bobbi Dumas says Wings is a "textured masterpiece, quietly yet powerfully poking our consciences and our consciousness."