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Heavy rains in India have caused deadly flooding and landslides

We look at the latest out of India, where monsoon rains have caused deadly flooding and landslides.

'Aurora' tells the story of a psychiatrist who was publicly revealed as the doctor of a mass shooter

Dr. Lynne Fenton discusses the psychiatric treatment she provided James Holmes before the 2012 shooting in Aurora, CO, her inability to thwart his killing rampage, and her thoughts on how to prevent future mass shootings.

The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline marks one year of operation on July 16.

988 mental health crisis line gets 5 million calls, texts and chats in first year

The 3-digit suicide prevention lifeline went live a year ago. More work is needed on the 988 system, but the first year has gone more smoothly than many expected.

Shein is accused in a lawsuit by three independent designers of stealing and making exact copies of their works to sell on its website. On the left is Larissa Martinez's design, and on the right is a Shein product.

Shein steals artists' designs, a federal racketeering lawsuit says

Three artists are accusing the e-commerce giant of selling exact copies of their designs on its website. Shein has faced similar accusations before.

Victoria Amelina stands next to a cherry tree in the backyard of Volodymyr Vakulenko, a Ukrainian children's book author, where he buried his diary of living under Russian occupation in Kapytolivka before he was killed.

She saved the diary of a Ukrainian writer killed by Russia. Then she was killed, too

Award-winning novelist Victoria Amelina, who retrained as a war crimes researcher to document Russian atrocities and preserve Ukrainian culture, has met a tragic end.

Players on both teams celebrated on the field after the HBCU Swingman Classic concluded.

At the HBCU Swingman Classic, pro baseball confronts its decline in Black players

Jackie Robinson's sport is at a low point in professional Black American representation. An exhibition game spearheaded by Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. and others aims to help change that.

A man walks in front of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Jan. 7, 2015 in New Orleans.

Court pauses order limiting Biden administration contact with social media companies

A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily paused a lower court's order limiting executive branch officials' communications with social media companies about controversial online posts.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signs a 6-week abortion ban from the stage of The Family Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa where several Republican presidential candidates were speaking in front of hundreds of evangelical Christians on July 14, 2023.

Iowa governor signs law immediately banning abortions around 6 weeks of pregnancy

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law Friday afternoon banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. It went into effect immediately. A judge plans to issue a ruling Monday that will determine whether or not the ban can be enforced.

John Boyega and Juel Taylor talk new existential thriller 'They Cloned Tyrone'

NPR's Scott Detrow talks to actor John Boyega and director Juel Taylor about the new Netflix movie They Cloned Tyrone.

People watch Friday in in Massapequa Park, N.Y., as law enforcement officials investigate the home of a suspect arrested in the unsolved Gilgo Beach killings.

Suspect arrested in Gilgo Beach serial killings searched updates on police probe

A man connected to the Long Island murders that inspired the 2020 Netflix film Lost Girls was arrested in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday night.

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