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The airline filed for Chapter 11 in November 2011 and has been waiting to emerge from bankruptcy to complete a proposed merger with US Airways.

Jose Rodrigues came to the United States from Angola as a teenager and joined the Marines out of high school. He served in Iraq twice, and he's one of 26,000 service members whose citizenship has been expedited because of his military service. He says that taking the oath of citizenship didn't make him feel more American -- he's considered himself an American for a long time.

Indian-Americans make up less than 1 percent of the U.S. population, but they've won the past four National Spelling Bees and 9 of the past 13. How has this tiny community become a spelling dynasty, and why are they so driven to win?

Spontaneous celebrations break out in Dearborn, Mich. -- home to a large Arab-American community and many Iraqi immigrants -- as news arrives that Baghdad is in U.S. hands. Celeste Headlee of member station WDET reports.

A new research collaboration between Harvard University and Oxford University Press aims to compile the first fully-formed dictionary of African American English.

A federal judge awards the parents of an American teen, shot in Jerusalem by Palestinian gunmen, $156 million in damages. The court found that three Islamic charities and the man who helped raise money for Hamas were culpable in the shooting. Chicago Public Radio's Diantha Parker reports.

Raed Fares, a pro-democracy activist from the Syrian town of Kafr Nabl, has helped lead that town's anti-government protests since the very early days of the Syrian conflict in 2011. This week, Fares is in the U.S., on only his second trip outside of Syria. Fares is attempting to rebuild support for the revolution among Syrian Americans. He speaks with NPR's Arun Rath about the conflict and the toll it has taken on his town.

The U.S. Embassy confirmed the 60-year-old's death in Wuhan, China. The death on Thursday was the first of an American from the virus.

NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's Supreme Court decision that states cannot be sued by their employees for money damages under the Americans With Disabilities Act. The justices' 5-4 ruling follows a pattern of recent decisions that reduce the power of the federal government over the states.

The tight race for a U.S. Senate seat from South Dakota -- won by Sen. Tim Johnson, the Democratic incumbent -- shows the growing power of Native American voters on both parties. Brian Bull of South Dakota Public Radio reports.