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  • Rescuers searching the hazardous slopes of Indonesia's Mount Marapi volcano found 11 more bodies of climbers who were caught by a surprise weekend eruption. More than 50 climbers were rescued.
  • The Dachau memorial is hosting commemorative events and dedicating a plaque in honor of the U.S. Army's 45th Infantry Division that first encountered prisoners alive at the camp 80 years ago.
  • Teen vaping is trending downwards these days. But data from Colorado and around the country show the generation that made Juul cool is still hooked on nicotine.
  • The GOP's tax overhaul effort faces a consequential week, more could be learned about Russia's role in trying to influence the election through social media and the ambush in Niger comes into focus.
  • A late comeback attempt wasn't enough for the Racers in the team's first ever Men's College World Series game, as Murray State lost 6-4 to UCLA on Saturday. The Racers will face Arkansas in a win-or-go-home game on Monday.
  • Advertisers collect information with every digital move people make. They then target ads based on that information. Communications scholar Joseph Turow worries that advertisers will use such data to discriminate against people and put them into "reputation silos."
  • Madeline Heim reports for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where she covers Wisconsin’s environmental challenges as part of the Mississippi River Basin Project, a collaborative reporting network across the Basin. Previously, she was a health and science reporter for the Appleton Post-Crescent and the USA Today network in Wisconsin—her coverage of the pandemic earned top honors from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. Born and raised in the Badger State, she holds degrees in journalism and creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was editor-in-chief of the The Daily Cardinal. Heim has interned at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, and reported for the Winona Daily News in Winona, Minnesota, where she quickly fell in love with the Mississippi River region.
  • Simone Popperl is an editor for NPR's Morning Edition and Up First. She joined the network in March 2019, and since then has pitched and edited stories on everything from the legacy of burn pits in Iraq, to never-ending "infrastructure week," to California towns grappling with climate change, to American alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin's ascendance to the top of her sport. She led Noel King's reporting on the early days of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Steve Inskeep's reporting from swing states in the lead up to the 2020 Presidential Election, and Leila Fadel's field reporting from Kentucky on the end of Roe v. Wade.
  • Last year's biggest winner will try to repeat his wins for song and record of the year, and add album of the year to his trophy case. Other top nominees include Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny.
  • After Steve Jobs was diagnosed with cancer, he asked Walter Isaacson to write his biography. The new book tells the personal story of the man behind the personal computer — from his childhood in California to his thoughts on family, friends, death and religion.
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