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The Louisville Metro Police Department says it plans to fire two more officers involved in the raid that led to Breonna Taylor's death. Taylor was the Black woman killed by police in a botched raid.

Police in Nashville, Tenn., were warned in 2019 that Anthony Warner was building explosive devices. Authorities had previously said Warner, who detonated a bomb on Christmas Day, was unknown to them.

Boston Celtics player and coach K.C. Jones has died at age 88. NPR remembers his understated manner and how he let the players have the limelight.

2020 saw an unprecedented number of statues and other symbols related to America's racist past removed. People with racist tattoos followed suit, by getting their tattoos covered up.

The Cold War-era turncoat became a believer in communism after he was captured in North Korea and went on to spy for the Soviet Union. He died Saturday in Moscow at the age of 98.

In June, President Trump halted various temporary work visas, including H-1B, L-1 and certain J-1 visas. Advocates for an extension say it would tie the hands of President-elect Joe Biden.

It's been a tough year for most of us, and we've been asking what's helped you cope. For many of us — it was mother nature and our four legged friends — that have gotten us through it.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to traveling nurse Juan Ramirez, who worked in Texas and Arizona during the pandemic and is now an ICU nurse in California at Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding.

Colville Reservation's council has been doing its best to insulate the north central Washington tribe from the coronavirus. But borders are fluid, so the community's precautions haven't been enough.

The sheer volume of loss felt by the music world in 2020 is almost overwhelming. Here is NPR's tribute to dozens of the musicians — founders and innovators across genres — who died this year.