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  • 4 Dead, Including Shooter, At Army's Fort Hood
    A soldier who was undergoing assessment to determine whether he had post-traumatic stress disorder opened fire on Wednesday at the base. Four people are dead including the shooter, who killed himself.
  • People exit Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles on Friday.
    Murder Charges Filed In Los Angeles Airport Shooting
    A day after a shooting grounded hundreds of flights and more than 99,000 passengers, the airport was back to normal. Meanwhile, portraits of the alleged shooter and the slain TSA agent are emerging.
  • A crime scene photo provided by the Connecticut State Police shows a rifle in the master bedroom in Adam Lanza's house.
    One Year After Newtown, Still No Answer To 'Why'
    A year after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., gunman Adam Lanza's motives are still unclear. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy says people may just have to be satisfied with what they've known from the beginning — that on Dec. 14, 2012, a horrible thing happened.
  • A Vet Finds PTSD Relief With Pot, Though The Law Creates Hurdles
    Ryan Begin, an injured veteran, says marijuana helped his pain and PTSD in ways that prescription drugs did not. Those drugs "drained his soul," he says. But pot brought on new complications for the Iraq vet because while six states allow the use of marijuana for PTSD, the federal government does not.
  • Nigerian Militant Group Threatens To Sell Kidnapped School Girls
    On Monday, the militant Islamist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the mass kidnapping. Steve Inskeep talks to Mannir Dan Ali, editor-in-chief of the Daily Trust in Abuja, Nigeria.
  • The Neue Galerie exhibit's empty frames represent paintings that were lost or destroyed by the Nazis. They appear beside works that survived Nazi rule, like George Grosz's <em>Portrait of the Writer Max Hermann-Neisse</em> (lower right)<em>.</em>
    'Degenerate' Exhibit Recalls Nazi War On Modern Art
    In 1937, two Nazi art shows aimed to teach the public to despise modernist art and show them what art should be. An exhibit at New York's Neue Galerie reunites works from both landmark shows.
  • Assad Bound For Re-Election As War Appears At A Stalemate
    As Syria goes to the polls next week in an election that President Bashar Assad is certain to win, journalist Nick Blanford tells NPR's Scott Simon.
  • Officers on Capitol Hill look at a car following Thursday's shooting, which left Miriam Carey, 34, dead. "We're still very confused as a family why she's not still alive," Carey's sister says.
    Family Questions Shooting Death Of Woman At U.S. Capitol
    The death of Miriam Carey, killed by police gunfire Thursday after leading a car chase from the White House to the Capitol, is prompting questions from her family about whether she deserved to die. The incident, which has not yet been explained, has also led experts to analyze the officers' actions.
  • Apple unveiled its new mobile operating system, iOS 7.
    What You Need To Know About Changes Coming From Apple
    We watched Apple's unveiling of its latest line of MacBooks, operating systems and products so you didn't have to. Among the upgrades: the new iTunes Radio music streaming service — and Siri can now be a man.
  • Photo Exhibit Spanning Decades Reveals Our Collective War Story
    A genre-defining exhibition on view in Washington, D.C., says one thing about war: It's constant.
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