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Four recommendations from NPR's Book Concierge for books for kids and young adults.

Also: The U.S. may ease an arms embargo against Libya to fight ISIS; Verizon and two striking unions will resume negotiations; and more oil workers evacuate ahead of a spreading Canadian wildfire.

Also: Hurricane Matthew moves toward the U.S.; a study urges a federal role in state workers' compensation; and a federal appeals panel is hearing a case involving a controversial oil pipeline.

Also: Reviewing the GOP's tax blueprint; scores of protesters are arrested in St. Louis in anti-police brutality demonstrations; and it's the 60th anniversary of the Sputnik launch.

Also: Pope Francis may visit Cuba this fall; Tennessee lawmakers won't make the Bible the official state book; and it's true: the worst traffic in the world is in Jakarta, not New York City.

Also: Most of the National Park Service Board quits, angry over government indifference; wintry weather crashes into the East; and a suspected meteor causes quite the sonic boom in Eastern Michigan.

The Dow Jones industrial average topped 23,000 for the first time, crossing another milestone amid better-than-expected earnings reports and concerns that stocks are approaching another bubble.

Philadelphia's Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey is retiring at the end of the year. Under his watch, the murder and violent crime rates are lower than they've been in decades.

There's a pumped-up sports anthem by a star cricket player, a moody Latin duet and a Malaysian song flavored with American rock, Chinese folk and Malay opera.

Also: The U.S. says Chinese fighter jets dangerously intercepted a U.S. military jet; a House panel takes a bill on helping Puerto Rico manage its debt; and April was one of Earth's hottest months.