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NPR Music celebrates the alt-rock heroes, Hollywood idols, Pulitzer-winning composers, jazz luminaries, cult legends, bold activists, old masters and rising stars the world lost this year.

Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona come into focus in final days. Plus: where things stand in seven other Senate contests.

The Senate majority leader's remarks are his strongest against the president since the Jan. 6 riot.

At least 27 people were injured in the shooting. Police now believe there was only one shooter, an 18-year-old German-Iranian man, born and raised in Munich.

The SEC votes March 6 on adopting long-awaited rules that would require publicly-traded companies in the U.S. to disclose information about the risks they face from climate change.

Designer Katie Shelly's upcoming cookbook offers 50 illustrated recipe "blueprints" for basic meals — from simple snacks to more hefty dishes like eggplant Parmesan. She hopes they'll inspire any level of cook to improvise in the kitchen.

Donald Featherstone modeled the lawn ornament after images he saw in National Geographic. "Things I did made people happy, and that's what life is all about," he said in 2006.

A World Bank forecast was based on purchasing power parity, an estimate of the cost of living in a particular country. But that isn't the only way to measure the size of an economy.

Getting broadband access can be a major challenge in rural areas. In one community in West Virginia, volunteers have set up a wireless network that serves local residents and businesses who otherwise would struggle with much slower dialup service.

Mimi Sheraton, who chronicled New York's culinary scene, has died at 97. She is being remembered as the New York Times' first female restaurant critic, who enjoyed great food from little-known spots.