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A Hong Kong online news site said Sunday that it will cease operations in light of deteriorating press freedoms, days after police raided a separate pro-democracy news outlet, arresting seven.

President George H.W. Bush died Friday at the age of 94. A look back at his presidency.

Mississippi is a much-changed place since civil rights pioneer Medgar Evers was murdered there 40 years ago this week. The civil rights leader refused to leave the state he loved. He believed conditions would improve. And now his state leads the nation in the number of black elected officials. NPR's Melanies Peoples reports from the county where Evers grew up.

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Wednesday on boosting FCC fines for indecency. Lawmakers are expected to increase the fines from $32,500 to a whopping $325,000 per incident. Tess Vigeland of Marketplace says the new fine is likely to have a big influence on what broadcasters put on air.

The president of the United Automobile Workers will have tough words for his membership, according to a report in Monday's New York Times. He plans to tell them that the U.S. automobile industry is facing an unprecedented crisis that will require sacrifices from auto workers. Alex Chadwick talks to John Dimsdale of Marketplace.

Among the topics: Matt Holzmann's story of the day he finally got a new kidney; Neil Young's protest music; and the old-fashioned -- and highly successful -- Anniston Star newspaper of Anniston, Ala.

The protest comes a couple of days after dozens of prominent leaders in Jamaica publicized a letter demanding that Britain apologize and award its former colony slavery reparations.

Ten years after the Boston Marathon bombing, Robert Wheeler is training for this year's race. He's one of dozens of runners who survived the tragedy and has continued to run Boston in the years since.

President Vladimir Putin's party looked set to win a resounding victory in Sunday's parliamentary election. Early results give the United Russia party about 63 percent of the vote in an election Putin turned into a referendum on his rule.

The presidential candidates are trying to pack in as many appearances as possible in Iowa and New Hampshire this weekend, before Christmas. Rudy Giuliani is in New Hampshire. His lead in national polls has been slipping.