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Asian American Michelle Wu is Boston's first elected mayor who isn't a white man. While many celebrate the milestone, others lament that all the Black candidates failed.

If you haven't finished your Christmas shopping yet, or you just don't know what to get, the New York Times is here to help. It published a list of wacky presents from all corners of the internet.

"Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure" opened recently in New York City. It features 200 never-before-seen and rare paintings, drawings and artifacts from Basquiat, who died in 1988 at age 27.

It's the third shot at a mainline Halo game by video game developer 343 Industries, and it nailed both the single-player and multiplayer offerings that give the franchise its reverence.

President Biden recently announced a new COVID plan to try to get things back to normal. Dr. Ashish Jha — a familiar face in the public health community — helped develop that plan.

With increased car and foot traffic, the ground underneath the Tidal Basin — home to memorials to Thomas Jefferson, FDR and MLK Jr. — is sinking. As sea levels rise, the walkways flood daily.

Jeanine Pirro, Tucker Carlson and others are being grilled under oath in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for spreading lies about a voting tech company's role in the 2020 elections.

NPR's A Martínez talks to filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi about the documentary The Rescue — which recounts the 2018 underwater effort to save 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave.

Belarus kidnaps a journalist from a commercial flight. Secretary Blinken flies to Israel.

St. Timothy's Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon say the ordinance restricting them to two free meal giveaways per week violates their constitutional right to religious expression.

Though infections are still sky-high, the U.S. may be turning a corner, according to a consortium of researchers who forecast the pandemic. And we may well be spared a winter surge.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Travis Clardy, a Republican state lawmaker in Texas, about this week's school shooting in Uvalde, and the state's gun laws.