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Charitable giving to the nation's colleges and universities reached $30.30 billion in 2011, an 8.2 percent increase over the previous year, a new survey says. The 20 institutions that raised the most received $8.24 billion. Stanford, Harvard and Yale topped the list.

March Madness basketball play reaches the Sweet 16 on the men's side — the women's will be solidified by the end of the day. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Nicole Auerbach with The Athletic.

Fire officials say the Crooks Fire burning south of Prescott is 16% contained at nearly 6,500-acres. Some evacuees were allowed to return home today.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg about a sixth teenager charged in the infamous 1989 Central Park case having his conviction overturned.

The final score in Game 7 was Cubs 8, Indians 7. The Cubs came back from a 3-1 game deficit in the Series and became baseball's champions for the first time since 1908.

The panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is holding two top Trump aides in contempt, and is seeking cooperation from Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

A community meeting will be held Thursday evening at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott at 6 p.m. and can also be streamed at the Prescott National Forest’s Facebook page.

Ina Jaffe is a veteran NPR correspondent covering the aging of America. Her stories on Morning Edition and All Things Considered have focused on older adults' involvement in politics and elections, dating and divorce, work and retirement, fashion and sports, as well as issues affecting long term care and end of life choices. In 2015, she was named one of the nation's top "Influencers in Aging" by PBS publication Next Avenue, which wrote "Jaffe has reinvented reporting on aging."

The pop charts this week are full of milestones, from a trio of K-pop acts crashing the top of the album chart to the year's biggest hit matching the longest-ever run atop the singles chart.

As a region, the Americas fare quite well in Gallup's new global index of personal well-being, but the U.S. fell from No. 12 to No. 23 worldwide.