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The votes are being counted after millions of Congolese voted in national elections on Sunday. It is the vast, impoverished nation's first democratic elections in 46 years. Joseph Kabila was considered the front-runner. But no candidate in the field is expected to win the majority needed to avoid a runoff.

Israel's highest court has rejected a bid by Jewish settlers to halt Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw settlements from the Gaza Strip in August. The court challenge was the last legal obstacle to the pullout, which will affect 1,700 families.

Walter Mosley has written more than two dozen books featuring unforgettable black characters as lovers, thugs, bad guys, good guys — and guys who are a little of each. Mosley is now lending his voice to an effort by the American Library Association to introduce young people to books with diverse authors and characters.

Political commentator Sophia Nelson says it feels like "open season" on successful black women. In Black Woman Redefined, Nelson takes on the stereotypes that depict black women as angry and incapable of finding a man.

The burgeoning Portland songwriter counts John Fahey and Leo Kottke as inspirations.

The Michigan senator tells NPR he wants to focus on the fiscal battle, not campaigning, in his last two years. He wants to push for ending tax loopholes and advocate for programs like education, health care and infrastructure.

The stabbings took place across 13 locations in the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon in Canada's Saskatchewan province.

As part of his project "The Currency," Damien Hirst released a collection of 10,000 NFTs, each one corresponding to a physical artwork. Buyers could keep either the non-fungible token or the painting.

The Stockton Police Department announced on Saturday that they had arrested 43-year-old Wesley Brownlee on suspicion of homicide.

If confirmed by the Ohio Senate, Anne Vogel will replace director Laurie Stevenson, who is set to retire at the end of the year.