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The U.S. economy turned up encouraging signs for most Americans. Workers can now find more jobs, and drive to them using cheaper gas. And retirement accounts are getting a boost from rising stocks.

The shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., was the 355th mass shooting in the U.S. so far this year, or a little more than one per day. And it wasn't even the only mass shooting on Wednesday.

Maryland is the first state to issue a comprehensive set of pardons to the victims of lynching. Across the U.S., more than 4,000 Black people were lynched in acts of racial terror.

"Finally, there is some justice for the Nigerian people suffering the consequences of Shell's oil," said Eric Dooh, one of the Nigerian farmers who sued Shell.

A Wisconsin judge will hold a hearing Wednesday for Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old charged with killing two men and injuring a third during a Black Lives Matter rally.

The New York congressman was accused of sexual misconduct by a former lobbyist. Reed acknowledged he had been struggling with alcoholism at the time of the alleged misconduct.

We remember writer BRUCE CHATWIN, one of the most influential travel writers of his generation. CHATWIN died five years ago from a rare bone marrow disease he contracted while in China. He was 48 years old. CHATWIN spent over 20 years exploring the people and geography of the world. His 1978 travel book "In Patagonia" chronicled his solitary journey through South America. His last novel Utz was set in the art world. (RE-BROADCAST of show first aired 9/10/87)Writer TRACY JOHNSTON. JOHNSTON is the author of "Shooting the Boh: a Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo" (Vintage Books), which isd now inm its eighth printing. The book is not only an account of her adventure going down the river dealing with leeches, waterfalls, foot rot, and moldy clothes, but about her own realization that the hot flashes she was feeling in the middle of the night weren't the steamy jungle but the onset of menopause. Amy Tan described JOHNSTON as being "as hilariously observant of her own tics and wrinkles as she is of . (RE-BROADCAST of show first aired 1/

The Taliban of today has a sophisticated social media presence. It has harnessed online platforms as a tool of propaganda and is now using it as a way to govern.

Global Witness, an international human rights group, says a record 227 grassroots environmental activists were killed in 2020. More than half were killed in Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines.

Delegates to a United Nations wildlife conference have agreed to ease a 13-year-old global ban on ivory trading. The decision is a victory for southern African nations, but conservationists see it as a defeat for elephants. NPR's John Nielsen reports.