Steve Mullis

"In my eight months as reddit's CEO, I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly on reddit," Ellen Pao says, in a statement posted to the site. "The good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity."

Krishnadev Calamur

Pao has been at the center of a controversy following the still-unexplained dismissal of a popular figure in the site's r/IAmA section. She is being replaced by Steve Huffman, the site's original CEO.

The popular reddit question-and-answer section /r/IAmA, along with hundreds of others, has shut down in an apparent protest over the dismissal of a key figure at the social sharing site.

Parts Of Social-Sharing Site Reddit Go Dark In Apparent User Revolt

Steve Mullis

After the firing of a key figure at the website, moderators of many of reddit's most popular sections have gone private in apparent protest.

#NPRreads: The 'Grexit,' Video Games And Fleeing The Rwandan Genocide

Danielle Kurtzleben

Also this week, misconceptions about slavery. And, the struggle for gay Christians trying to keep the faith.

#NPRreads: Love, Coding, Yuccies, And The 'NPR Sound'

Steve Mullis

This week's selection of articles and essays covers comedian Aziz Ansari's new book about love, a new demographic term, a global gaming superstar, and more.

#NPRreads: Rube Goldberg Machine's Dark Origins And Spalding Gray's Last Days

Ina Jaffe

For your weekend reading, our staff also recommends a piece on an HIV outbreak in Austin, Ind.

#NPRreads: From Supreme Court Justice To The Notorious R.B.G.

Nina Totenberg

For your weekend, here are four recommendations: How Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became an Internet meme, how The Great Wave went viral, a profile of Hugh Hewitt and why 4Chan's founder walked away.

A pickup truck bursts into flames as a riot breaks out outside of a soccer match between Egyptian Premier League clubs Zamalek and ENPPI at Air Defense Stadium, in a suburb east of Cairo, on Sunday.

More Than Two Dozen Killed In Riot At Egyptian Soccer Match

Steve Mullis

A riot outside of a major soccer match broke out in Egypt on Sunday night. Authorities said the stampede and fighting between fans and police killed at least 25 people.

Luke Willson (#82) of the Seattle Seahawks celebrates after scoring on a two-point conversion during the fourth quarter of the 2015 NFC Championship game against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. Seattle won 28-22.

Seattle Super Bowl Bound After NFC Title Win Over Green Bay

Scott Neuman

The Seattle Seahawks defeated the Green Bay Packers 28-22 to win the NFC title. They'll face either Indianapolis or New England in Super Bowl XLIX.

German-American game developer Ralph Baer shows the prototype of the first games console which was invented by him during a press conference on the Games Convention Online in Leipzig, Germany in 2009. Baer died on Saturday. He was 92.

Inventor Ralph Baer, The 'Father Of Video Games,' Dies At 92

Steve Mullis

Video games have become a ubiquitous, billion-dollar industry, but all of the Playstations, Xboxes and Wiis can be traced back to the work of Robert Baer and his "Brown Box." He died Saturday.

Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, shown during his medical examination after he fatally shot Michael Brown, has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, the AP reports. Wilson has been on administrative leave since the Aug. 9 shooting.

Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson Resigns

Steve Mullis

Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown nearly four months ago, writes in a resignation letter that he hopes stepping down will "allow the community to heal."