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View of Guitar Center in Hollywood, Calif.

From bankruptcy to IPO in a year? It's a tune Guitar Center might play

Mattress Firm, Claire's, Guitar Center are bankruptcy survivors going from a year of shuttered stores to planning a new life as publicly traded companies.

Family members exchange photographs of their lost loved ones in the lobby of the Akin Gump law firm offices on Thursday in Manhattan, NY. The family members and victims gave statements to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court with the Sackler family, who own Purdue Pharma LP, present on Thursday.

For the first time, victims of the opioid crisis formally confront the Sackler family

The Sacklers, who own Purdue Pharma, maker of Oxycontin, have maintained they did nothing wrong. People who lost loved ones and years of their lives to opioid addiction believe otherwise.

A stacker-reclaimer next to a stockpile of coal at the Newcastle Coal Terminal in Newcastle, New South Wales. Australia is a major coal producer. A new draft agreement at the climate summit in Scotland calls for ending coal power.

Draft agreement at the COP26 climate summit looks to rapidly speed up emissions cuts

The draft, circulated at the United Nations climate summit in Glasgow, calls for an end to coal power and more rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

Here, a burned truck is pictured in a destroyed neighborhood in Louisville, Colo. Search teams looked for two missing people on Sunday in the snow-covered but still smoldering debris from a massive Colorado wildfire.

2 remain missing after the Colorado fire. Survivors are counting their blessings

The missing persons toll has dropped after one person was found alive. Residents who escaped the flames that destroyed some 1,000 homes returned to sort through what was left.

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, an Illinois Democrat, is calling on the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate sales of a non-FDA approved drug marketed as a treatment for COVID-19.

Congressman Calls For Federal Crackdown On Unproven Coronavirus Treatment

An NPR investigation revealed a network of doctors marketing a non-FDA approved drug as a purported treatment for COVID-19. Now, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) is calling for federal enforcement.

A wind turbine in front of a steaming coal power plant in Gelsenkirchen, Germany in 2010. New reports find countries' latest promises to cut climate emissions are still not enough to avoid the worst impacts from warming.

Glasgow climate pledges are 'lip service' without far more aggressive plans

New analyses find countries' latest climate promises are still not enough to meet the goal set in the Paris climate agreement. And they warn few countries even have plans to carry out their pledges.

<em>Component System</em> is a record that makes a case for the past as a continuously changing and evolving presence, not a trapped-in-amber escape route.

Open Mike Eagle makes himself a mixtape

The referential artist discusses hip-hop's repurposing spirit, reconciling zonal versions of himself, making sense of rap's "golden era" and his new album, Component System with the Auto Reverse.

A passer-by walks past a sign that calls attention to COVID-19 testing while departing a Walgreens pharmacy, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, in New Bedford, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

'Test to Treat' gets COVID pills to at-risk patients fast but its reach is limited

The Biden administration's new program enables high-risk patients who test positive to get antiviral pills on the spot in some pharmacies. But many pharmacies won't be able to participate.

Briana Scurry blocks a penalty shootout during overtime of the Women's World Cup Final against China at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., July 10, 1999. The U.S. team won 5-4 on penalties.

A brain injury cut short Briana Scurry's soccer career. It didn't end her story

After a traumatic brain injury left her in terrible pain and unable to work, the legendary goalkeeper had to pawn her Olympic medals. Scurry charts her road to recovery in My Greatest Save.

Max (Mikey Madison), Sam (Pamela Adlon), Frankie (Hannah Riley), and Duke (Olivia Edwards) in Season 5 of <em>Better Things</em>.

Goodbye to 'Better Things,' a show that embraced the messiness of life

Pamela Adlon's heartfelt dramedy series ends on an eternally optimistic note.

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