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The Justice Department has abandoned its high profile foreign bribery case against businessmen in the military equipment industry after a string of mistrials and acquittals. Prosecutors have spent increasing resources to bring companies to justice under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, but their record recently has been very uneven.

Darrell Brooks, 40, was sentenced Wednesday following his conviction last month after he plowed his SUV through the crowd at the Waukesha Christmas Parade last year.

As a precaution, San Antonio College evacuated some campus buildings. It later canceled classes for the rest of the day.

Boston has ended its bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Mayor Martin Walsh said the financial risk was just too great. But the episode did inspire NPR's Scott Simon to write a poem.

The study tracked an uptick in live births that came nine months or more after Texas passed Senate Bill 8, which restricted abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

The striking workers are demanding better pay in one of the country's most expensive housing markets. Hotel workers make, on average, about $25 an hour. They're asking for a $5-per-hour hike.

Retailers offered deep discounts over the weekend, trying to make up for the lackluster holiday shopping season. A spokesman for the National Retail Federation says the weekend after Christmas is becoming just as critical for the industry as Black Friday. That's the traditional start of the holiday shopping season on the day after Thanksgiving.

An appeals court heard arguments in the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen who was arrested in New York and sent to Syria for interrogation. Arar is seeking permission to sue the U.S. government for violating his right to due process.

John Updike won two Pulitzer Prizes for his series of novels. He was also a noted poet and essayist, as well as a critic of literature and fine art. In 2005, Updike contributed to This I Believe. In his essay, he writes about the art of fiction, politics and religion.

The result of tomorrow's parliamentary elections in Russia is all but certain — only the margin of victory is in doubt. Masha Lipman, a political analyst at the Moscow Carnegie Center, talks with John Ydstie about the lengths to which President Putin has gone to ensure a landslide victory for his United Russia party.