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Hours after an officer shot and killed an armed suspect who ran from police during a traffic stop, protests turned violent. Mayor Tom Barrett plans to meet with community and religious leaders today.

It's hard to really know what life is like for prisoners in the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. NPR's Arun Rath got a rare tour of the prison, and tells Rachel Martin what he saw.

At the Olympics, some countries have athlete rosters that are hundreds strong. And then there's the south Pacific island nation of Nauru, with a population of 10,000 and two athletes at the games.

The federal state of emergency in Flint, Mich. expires today, as the city continues to navigate a public health crisis caused by lead-laced water.

New York police are working to track down the gunman who fatally shot the leader of a mosque in Queens and his associate on Saturday as they were walking home from afternoon prayers.

Most weddings go off without a hitch. But for Stella Grizont, Nikki Vargas and Jonathan Brill, calling it quits before walking down the aisle was the right decision.

Her first vault was strong; her second was near perfection. In other individual competitions Sunday, Madison Kocian won silver on uneven bars and Alex Naddour won bronze for his pommel horse routine.

The ISIS affiliate abducted the girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014, and most are still missing. The case spurred international outrage and prompted the "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign.

The Kenyan took the lead with about two miles to go and never looked back. All three Americans finished in the top 10, but they failed to make the medal podium.

NPR examined more than a decade of data detailing Israeli and Palestinian fatalities. From February 2005 to September 2015, there were only four months with no deaths from conflict-related violence.