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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges about her friend, Pulitzer Prize winning child psychiatrist Robert Coles, who died on June 4 at 97.

As a member of Congress, she passed a bill to hold the executive branch accountable for persistent violent crime in Native communities. Now she's a Cabinet secretary, but she's saying little about it.

The London 2012 Games have been touted as the first Olympics to live fully in the age of social media. But a rash of scandals related to Twitter has put a new mark on the face of the London Games. The stories range from a journalist's suspended account to a tweeting teen who has been arrested.

The conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd is a major moment in the push for police to face accountability in the killings of Black men.

Paul Manafort's business partner Rick Gates has become the center of the defense's case. They say he is behind the financial crimes Manafort is accused of. Gates is expected to testify this week.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is promoting a controversial fix for the city's struggling public school system. He wants to put the bureaucracy under his control. Villaraigosa says this will bring more accountability to Los Angeles public schools. But his opponents call it a power grab.

Some online therapy companies are facing scrutiny for how they handle user data. Experts weigh in on what patients can do to keep their data safer when using these types of services.

Steve Inskeep speaks to Stacy Schiff about her biography of Samuel Adams.

Israel's military said the airdrops would begin Saturday night in Gaza, after mounting accounts of starvation-related deaths. Israeli officials also said humanitarian corridors will be established.

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. He was 91.