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Rebecca Hersher is a reporter on NPR's Science Desk, where she reports on outbreaks, natural disasters, and environmental and health research. Since coming to NPR in 2011, she has covered the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, embedded with the Afghan army after the American combat mission ended, and reported on floods and hurricanes in the U.S. She's also reported on research about puppies. Before her work on the Science Desk, she was a producer for NPR's Weekend All Things Considered in Los Angeles.

An Egyptian colonel is among the dead, according to multiple reports. A suicide car bomb explosion triggered an assault by dozens of gunmen.

Research could determine whether he suffered from brain disease. At least two other former players who also committed suicide recently had that problem and it's thought that injuries suffered during their careers caused the diseases.

A coroner classified Karl Pierson's death as a suicide. Authorities said Pierson came into Arapahoe High School fully armed. He shot one student, before killing himself.

Suicide bombers strike at two Shiite mosques said to be frequented by supporters of the country's Houthi rebel movement.

The attackers were targeting Ankara, according to the chief prosecutor's office, two months after a pair of suicide blasts killed more than 100 people at a peace rally.

Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read emails from listeners about a series on guns.

David Greene talks to Tony Medina, professor of creative writing at Howard University, about Ntozake Shange, who wrote: "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf."

One day after dozens of people were killed in two suicide bomb attacks aimed at Shiites, there's been another deadly explosion. At least five of the victims were children, officials say.