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The NBA star, his daughter and seven other people were killed last month. Investigators say the craft didn't have an engine failure. Determining the cause of the crash will take more time.

Prosecutors told the court that they considered Douglas Hodge, the ex-CEO of PIMCO, among the "most culpable" of the parents charged. He has been sentenced to nine months in prison.

The National Portrait Gallery unveiled the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama two years ago this month. Now it is sending them on a yearlong tour to five cities.

A new campus in India, SRM Andhra Pradesh, has high-tech labs, classrooms that use Artificial Intelligence and no paved road to the campus.

Prime Minister Leo Varadker's party is struggling, while Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein has surged into the lead ahead of Saturday's vote. Reporter Jennifer Bray of the Irish Times explains why.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Jenny Offill about her new novel, "Weather," which balances a woman's parochial concerns with her growing alarm about the state of the planet.

Menelik II fought off Italians bent on taking his empire, but also oppressed and enslaved ethnic and religious minorities. The victims' descendants are wary of attempts to make him a unifying figure.

They charge that news of a new pneumonialike illlness was kept from the public for weeks — and that social media accounts are being shut down if certain types of comments are made.

Violence at houses of worship in recent years has congregational leaders adding security. But the move is sometimes at odds with their beliefs and their missions to the communities they serve.

The Black News Channel is a 24-hour television news channel that launches on Monday. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with the networks co-founder and chairman, J.C. Watts.