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Young adult literature has never been so psychologically probing or artistically ambitious as it is today. Marissa Meyer's favorite novels beguile, thrill and, above all, transport younger readers to a Shakespearean magical theater, futuristic Chicago and a netherworld of ghost hunters.

President Biden's middle east diplomacy, and the January 6 committee issues new subpoenas as it continues to build a case against former President Donald Trump.

Authorities are investigating fires that have damaged or destroyed black churches in South Carolina and nearby states following the shooting deaths of nine people at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church.

Roughly 133 billion pounds of food go uneaten each year — much of it still edible. So for a half-year, the two filmmakers behind Just Eat It vowed to eat nothing but food entering the waste stream.

Statewide averages over each period were marginally higher than for the region. Overall land values were still up across the state last year, but the report showed some declines in the price of high-quality farmland in northeastern Illinois and the region around Decatur.

A K-pop blockbuster lands atop this week's Billboard albums chart, but it's not the one you might be expecting.

NPR's Peter Overby reports on information released this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission. That report said a 1993 stock trade that made more than 37 thousand dollars' profit in one day for New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato broke the rules of the brokerage firm that carried out the transaction. The report does not accuse D'Amato of any wrongdoing, but it questions the motive of the firm in giving him preferential treatment. D'Amato says the report is an old story..the profit was first reported in 1994 financial disclosure papers.

ABC lost a libel suit today and has been ordered to pay ten million dollars in damages to a Florida banker. Alan Levan, chief executive of the Fort Lauderdale-based S&L, BankAtlantic, brought the suit after a 1991 segment on ABC's newsmagazine, "20/20" alleged he had engaged in fraudulent business transactions involving a real estate for bonds swap. Levan was later convicted in federal court, but a fraud verdict was erased in a settlement. His suit against ABC said the network had depicted him as a swindler and severely damaged his reputation. NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports.

China's biggest online retailer, the Alibaba Group, reportedly has decided it will not launch its Initial Public Offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Instead, it wants to bring the IPO to New York. Alibaba processed $170 billion in transactions last year — more than Amazon and eBay combined.

Enron founder Kenneth Lay and former CEO Jeff Skilling go on trial Monday in Houston. Federal prosecutors will argue that Enron's top executives misled and defrauded investors through deals and statements designed to conceal growing losses at what was once the world's largest energy trading company.