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NPR's Noah Adams speaks to Amy Cook, a teacher at Irving Middle School in Pocatello, Idaho, who led a local group to construct a symbolic cemetery of white crosses for U.S. soldiers who've died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Álvarez hadn't lost a fight since 2013 across four different weight classes. But on Saturday night in Las Vegas, he met his match in the Russian light heavyweight champion Bivol.

This year, Gertrude Mongela became the highest-ranking elected woman in all of Africa when she was elected to the presidency of the African Union's new Pan African Parliament. She talks to NPR's Tony Cox about the challenges facing Africa today, from the Ivory Coast to the Sudan.

Following the recent removal of the drug Vioxx from the market, lawmakers are reconsidering a portion of medical malpractice reform. Caps in the malpractice bill would affect pharmaceutical and medical product manufacturers. Democrats oppose the caps, but Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) calls the situation a "feeding frenzy" for trial lawyers. NPR's Julie Rovner reports.

The lame duck 108th Congress will come back to Washington and go into overtime. Unfinished business includes intelligence reform, raising the debt ceiling and passing most of the spending bills that keep the federal government operating.

After the 1992 Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, the Rev. Cecil "Chip" Murray became a household name for his efforts to end the violence. Then-mayor Tom Bradley relied on his influence, and politicians of all stripes made sure to visit the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Central Los Angeles. Earlier this month, a 75-year-old Rev. Murray delivered his last sermon as head of the First AME congregation. NPR's Tavis Smiley speaks with Murray about his activist past and his still-active future.

Adobe Bookshop in San Francisco has an unusual organization method -- at least for a few weeks. The store's 20,000 used books are arranged according to the colors of the rainbow. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Chris Cobb, the artist behind the project.

The U.S. leads an operation against insurgents in an area south of Iraq's capital. Known as the "triangle of death," the region has been the scene of almost daily attacks on Iraqi government troops and police. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.

NPR's Noah Adams talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about financial difficulties in America's airline industry. ATA, the nation's 10th-largest airline, filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday.

Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration's national security adviser, has come under fire recently for what some label her political campaigning on behalf of her boss, President George W. Bush. She talks with NPR's Tavis Smiley about that controversy, and about the latest report of hundreds of tons of missing explosives.