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2021 was filled with tremendous loss, from staggering COVID deaths to those of leading writers such as Joan Didion and bell hooks to a longtime abortion activist and politicians who shaped our world.

"Juror B37," a woman in her 50s from Seminole County, Fla., explains to CNN her thinking about a key piece of evidence in the case. George Zimmerman was acquitted over the weekend of charges in the death of Trayvon Martin.

Also: Jonathan Franzen answers an odd accusation; Zadie Smith's next book will be a "science-fiction romp."

Also: Joyce Carol Oates ignites a Twitter controversy; George Orwell's fashion choices; and the best books coming out this week.

The company Mars One has launched a program that could allow you (yes you!) to make a trip to Mars. But you can't come back.

The number now stands at 52, the U.S. military says. The news comes just days after guards raided a section of the facility to move prisoners to single cells from their communal holding area because the detainees had covered security cameras.

The Christian theme park, featuring a 510-foot-long replica of the ark, is getting $18 million in new incentives from the state's tourism board.

A regional governor in the Philippines says the devastation from the storm will cost $14 billion. Preliminary estimates say economic growth could be hit by as much as 1 percent. In other news, Russia wants an apology from Poland; and an Egyptian soccer player is in hot water after expressing support with ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

Among those who could still be without insurance are low-income people in states that aren't expanding Medicaid, immigrants in the country illegally and those here legally but not yet eligible for Medicaid.

In a series of predawn raids, agents arrested five alleged mobsters in connection with the decades-old robbery of $5 million in cash and $1 million in jewels from a Lufthansa cargo building at JFK International airport.