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Lawmakers in at least two states – Nebraska and Oregon — are considering legislation that would require social networks like Facebook to grant loved ones access to the accounts of family members who have died. Oklahoma already has such a law.

About 75,000 people got a double dose of cheer if they happened to look at their bank balance on Christmas Day. The technical error cost about $175 million. The bank is recovering the money.

Wells Fargo has found 3.5 million potential fake accounts in an internal review, up from 2.1 million fake accounts the company initially identified.

The Twitter account @FacesofCOVID has been a way to honor some of the nearly 600,000 Americans who have died. Alex Goldstein, who runs it, has posted over 5,000 virtual obituaries.

NPR's Steven Inskeep talks to ex-CIA officer John Sipher about his skepticism that a bipartisan commission put together by lawmakers will produce a full accounting of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Mental health and law enforcement officials in California are wrestling with that question as violence at the state's psychiatric hospitals continues to escalate. They are trying to determine how to hold violent mental patients accountable for their actions without punishing them for being sick.

Reports from inside east Aleppo described indiscriminate killing and scenes of horror and despair. Now a cease-fire has taken hold, and there's hope evacuation might be possible.

Twitter announced Friday that President Trump's account would be permanently suspended, citing recent Tweets as violations of its Glorification of Violence policy.

Viola Fletcher, along with two other survivors of the siege of a Black neighborhood by a white mob, testify before a House subcommittee on Wednesday, almost exactly 100 years after the riot.

In 1927, author Zora Neale Hurston interviewed Cudjo Lewis, the last known living person who could recount the experience of being taken captive in Africa and transported on a slave ship to America.