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People carry a rainbow flag at the WorldPride 2014 Parade in Toronto in 2014.

After two failed attempts, Canada bans conversion therapy

The new law, which bans the widely discredited practice aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity takes, effect on Jan. 7.

By the time it was contained, the Caldor fire had destroyed more than 1,000 structures, damaged 81, injured at least five people and forced some 50,000 people to evacuate from the Lake Tahoe area.

A father and son were arrested in connection with California's massive Caldor Fire

David Scott Smith, 66, and Travis Shane Smith, 32, are accused of "reckless arson" in connection with the Caldor Fire, which burned more than 220,000 acres across three California counties this fall.

Starbucks workers at three stores around Buffalo, N.Y., have voted on whether to join a union.

Starbucks workers form their 1st union in the U.S. in a big win for labor

Baristas and other workers from three stores voted whether to unionize. Starbucks fought the plan. Now

Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa, left, and her mom, Anne Sikwibele, at the airport in Lusaka, Zambia, in November. Musiitwa, who lives in Washington, D.C., is worried that her mom may not be able to visit the U.S. for Christmas. In an effort to stem the spread of the omicron variant, several nations have imposed travel bans on southern African nations, which are in a state of flux.

Opinion: I want my mom to see her grandkids for Christmas. Travel bans make it tough

Jacqueline Muna Musiitwa was planning for her mom to fly from Zambia to the U.S. for Christmas. Ever-changing travel bans are making it seem like a holiday dream that won't come true.

Karthika Nair (left) and Marilyn Hacker (right)

Two poets chronicle their friendship and isolation during the pandemic

Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Nair were under lockdown in Paris only miles apart from each other. A Different Distance compiles the almost daily poems they wrote from March 2020 to March 2021.

Smollett found guilty of lying to authorities in trial over his alleged attack

Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett has been convicted of staging an anti-gay, racist attack on himself and lying to Chicago police about it. His lawyer is pledging to appeal.

U.K. researchers develop a questionnaire to find if your cat is psychopathic

Researchers adapted human tests for cats, Vice reports. Owners answer yes or no to statements like: My cat meows loudly for no apparent reason or my cat doesn't appear to act guilty after misbehaving.

Abortion-rights and anti-abortion activists rally outside the Supreme Court on Nov. 1, as arguments are set to begin about abortion by the court, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The court ruled on Friday that abortion providers can sue, but only against certain officials.

READ: Key excerpts from the Supreme Court ruling on S.B. 8, the Texas abortion case

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing abortion providers to challenge the restrictive Texas abortion law and dismisses a Justice Department case against the law. Here are excerpts from Friday's opinion.

Nesmith with his bandmates Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz and Peter Tork, photographed in Los Angeles in 1967

Michael Nesmith — considerably more than a Monkee — dies at 78

Nesmith rose to fame as one of the Pre-Fab Four — but he had a long and influential career after the Monkees. He helped invent the format that became MTV, and produced the cult film Repo Man.

'We will fight for our independence,' says Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Ambassador Oksana Markarova on relations between the two countries and increased pressure from Russia.

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