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Priyanka Chopra is the first South Asian woman to play a lead in a network TV drama. She has an advocate in a venture capitalist who has made it her business to meld South Asian and U.S. pop culture.

In a previous story on the Chicago mayor's reaction to the shooting of Laquan McDonald, we incorrectly said that McDonald was unarmed. The story should have said that he was carrying a knife.

Protests continue in Chicago Thursday over how the police department and Mayor Rahm Emanuel have handled to fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago police officer last year. NPR reports the frustrations run deep, and Emanuel's's choked-up apology Wednesday is doing little to quiet calls for his resignation.

According to a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday, the middle class is losing ground. The report finds the middle class has shifted into lower and upper-income households. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Rakesh Kochhar, the lead author of the report and associate director of research at the Pew Research Center, about what it now means to be part of the middle class. Then, Audie Cornish turns to NPR's Mara Liasson about what a shrinking middle class means for the presidential race.

Volkswagen's top two executives faced reporters Thursday and explained what they had learned about the emissions scandal that looms over the company. They said the investigation revealed that no member of VW's two boards were involved, and that misconduct was limited to a small number of employees.

The story of the ship that inspired Moby-Dick would have been better off without relying quite so heavily on that connection and the existential questions it inspires.

Director Adam McKay is better known for films like Anchorman, but even those comedies aren't any nuttier than this fact-based story about the guys who profited from the 2008 financial crisis.

When it comes to the success of students in poverty, UCLA's Pedro Noguera says that "schools can't do it alone."

Over the past decade, Utah's toughest cases of homeless people dropped to fewer than 200, from nearly 2,000. Utah's size and support from Mormon leaders are among the reasons for its success.

Novelist Claire Vaye Watkins recently published an essay called "On Pandering," about realizing she was writing to appeal to white men. She and author Marlon James discuss responses to the piece.