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David Coleman Headley was charged Monday with helping to plan the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India. Headley is the Chicago man who was arrested in October in connection with a plot to attack a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammmed. This new charge makes Headley the first American implicated in the Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people.

President Biden will designate a new national monument to honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was brutally killed in 1955. The monument will also pay tribute to his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

President Barack Obama is freezing all pending federal rules changes left by the Bush administration. He also froze salaries for White House staffers who make more than $100,000 a year. And because of some bungled wording during Tuesday's swearing-in ceremony, Chief Justice John Roberts re-administered the oath to Obama Wednesday.

The U.S. is about to cross another grim milestone: nearly a half million people have died from COVID-19. New cases continue to decline, but there is an urgency to pick up the pace of vaccinations.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks former associate director at the Office of Management and Budget, James Capretta, what it means that the Trump administration tried to pause federal loans and grants.

Nine major contemporary artists have created massive, otherworldly installations to mark the reopening of the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C.

The Bloomington City Council is split on whether to keep pouring money into the aging Market Street Parking Deck downtown.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Mackenzie Davis, who stars in the HBO Max series "Station Eleven." It's based on the novel about survivors of a flu pandemic that kills most of the world's population.

We take a year-end musical road trip with Memphis music writer Robert Gordon, who shares some of the stories from his collection of essays "Memphis Rent Party."

It was a night with bragging rights and disappointments — a midterm election in which both parties took some lumps, but could also take some satisfaction. Rancor and wrangling are likely from now on.