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NPR was there for 5-year-old Sam's first day of kindergarten back in 2004. His parents wondered if he was ready. This month, as he graduated from high school, they're still asking that question.

Edgar Maddison Welch pleaded guilty in March after entering the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C., brandishing a rife in order to "investigate" a baseless conspiracy theory.

Tensions are high in Milwaukee after a former police officer, who is black, was found not guilty of first degree reckless homicide following the fatal shooting of a young black man last summer.

Thanks to globalization and climate change, the pest has spread to 60 countries, attacking coconut, date and oil palm plantations, and costing millions of dollars in damages.

An-ex Milwaukee police officer was found not guilty in the shooting death of a motorist. President Trump returned to the campaign trail. Presidential adviser Jared Kushner is working on peace talks.

The jury found Dominique Heaggan-Brown, the former Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot Sylville Smith in a foot chase last summer, not guilty of first-degree reckless homicide on Wednesday.

Dominique Heaggan-Brown, who was charged with reckless homicide, shot 23-year-old Sylville Smith last summer. It happened after two police officers stopped two men in a car, and the men ran away.

In the aftermath of the acquittal of the officer who shot and killed Philando Castile, we've rounded up some of the compelling writing about this case — and police shootings — over the past year.

World leaders have called President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord "regrettable" and "disappointing." But for Honduran farmers, climate change is personal.

Otto Warmbier, the American college student who was held prisoner by North Korea for more than a year, has died. Warmbier returned to the U.S. last week in a coma.