The Washington Post

The Coloradan was the only American Indian in the Senate during his tenure and helped lead the effort to build the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington.

In November, she announced her terminal cancer diagnosis in a New Yorker essay that took aim at one of her cousins, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

From scientific breakthroughs to random acts of kindness, here’s your reminder of some of the hopeful things that happened this year.

Julian Dobbs, interim leader of the Anglican Church in North America, denied claims and said he was cleared of alleged financial wrongdoing.

In Kansas City, Missouri, where housing costs are rising at twice the national average, a successful rent strike at one building inspired another across town in what is poised to become a national movement.