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Ten of Wall Street's top brokerage firms agree to pay fines of about $1.5 billion to settle conflict-of-interest allegations. The firms were accused of misleading investors with bad research, and have agreed to changes in their research divisions. Hear NPR's Jim Zarroli, NPR's Michele Norris and Columbia University law professor John Coffee.

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has given former Vice President Joe Biden the third high-profile endorsement this week, along with Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders.

Commentator Bill Langworthy helps to get his nephew, Thomas, into a highly competitive Manhattan pre-school.

NPR Music's pop critic, Ann Powers, says each of her favorite albums of 2014 gave her new tools to cope with and learn from the world around her, even as that world crashed in from outside.

Many of them are loyal to current leader Xi Jinping.

Biden's social spending and infrastructure bills face opposition not just from congressional Republicans but members of his own party.

Elon Musk said he wants to break the duopoly that Republicans and Democrats have on American politics.

A woman in Texas didn't just decide to mark her divorce with a party and burning her dress, she took it a step further embedding her dress in 20 pounds of explosives and then shot it.

The Democratic Unionist Party also secured more than $1 billion in economic assistance for Northern Ireland.

While results are still being counted, the ruling Hindu nationalist party has conceded defeat, in a vote seen as a referendum on the Indian prime minister's leadership.