France is in its second of thee national days of mourning following coordinated terrorist attacks on Friday that left 129 people dead. Not all of the victims have been identified, but yesterday we reported on some of them.

Here are portraits of five other victims:

— Hugo Sarrade was ...

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Paris prosecutor Francois Molins says there have been six attacks in and around the city, and the death toll could exceed 120. The majority of those killed were in a concert hall.

NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports that French police stormed and took control of a concert ...

The Supreme Court decided Friday to hear a challenge to a 2013 Texas law that has already forced the closure of more than half of the state's 40 clinics that perform abortions and could result in the closure of a dozen more.

In June the court issued a ...

#NPRreads is a weekly feature on Twitter and on The Two-Way. The premise is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the #NPRreads hashtag. On Fridays, we highlight some of the best stories.

This week, we bring you three ...

Superstition has it that Friday the 13th is the unluckiest of days.

This Friday the 13th could be especially potent, as it's the third one this year. The other two unlucky Fridays fell in February and March. Having three in a single year isn't actually that uncommon. The last time ...

Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday removed his senior military assistant, Army Lt. Gen. Ron Lewis, after "learning about allegations of misconduct," the Pentagon said in a statement.

It did not specify what the alleged misconduct may have been, but NPR's Tom Bowman reports Lewis is accused of an improper ...

Vincent Asaro, 80, has been acquitted of charges that he helped plan the 1978 Lufthansa heist that was portrayed in the mob movie Goodfellas.

A jury in New York City found Asaro not guilty of charges of federal racketeering, the Associated Press reports.

While Asaro kept a low profile in ...

A high school runner was disqualified after finishing third in the Georgia cross-country AAAAA state championship race for wearing a headband with writing on it.

John Green, a senior at West Forsyth High School, ran the race wearing a white headband with a Bible verse written on it. After the ...

The University of Missouri's Board of Curators has named Michael Middleton, a recently retired senior administrator at the school, as the university system's interim president.

"Mike Middleton is the best person to lead the system during this critical period of transition, with 30 years of leadership experience on the MU ...

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Kabul on Wednesday to demand justice after the brutal killings of seven members of a Shiite minority group. The protesters blame the deaths on Islamist militants. The crowd followed the coffins as they were carried toward the presidential palace in the center ...

President Obama will be featured on the cover of Out Magazine's "Out 100" issue as the publication's Ally of the Year.

Obama earned the distinction for his administration's support in helping secure the legalization of same-sex marriage earlier this year. His appearance on the cover — the first time a ...

Within the formal, wood-paneled walls of the New Zealand Parliament chamber, woman after woman stepped in front of microphones Wednesday to take umbrage at a comment Prime Minister John Key made the day before. Each woman stood up one by one and — with some variation — began her remarks ...

After a nine-hour session, a grand jury indicted 106 bikers on charges of engaging in organized criminal activity. The charges stem from a May shootout between rival motorcycle clubs outside a Waco, Texas, restaurant that left nine people dead and 20 injured.

Police arrested 177 bikers after the gunfight; ...

One million pieces of gum, some of which are 20 years old, are being melted off the famous "gum wall" in Seattle.

Workers are using steam cleaners to loosen the hardened blobs from the Pike Place Market wall in order to restore the "the character [and] the history of the ...

Campbell Soup is changing the recipe of one of its chicken soups, but says it isn't quite ready to tinker with its classic chicken noodle version.

NPR's Allison Aubrey contacted the company, which clarified that it is changing the ingredient list of the Healthy Kids Shaped Pasta with Chicken in ...

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The party headed by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday accused Myanmar's government of intentionally delaying the results from Sunday's election.

In its report from Yangon, The Associated Press writes: "The Union Election Commission has been delaying intentionally because maybe they want to ...

The University of Illinois has fired its athletic director, Mike Thomas, following months of criticism about different athletic programs at the school.

"Mike Thomas has done a good job of leading through recent challenges," Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson said in a statement, according to the Chicago Tribune. "Decisions such ...

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Over the weekend, players of color on the University of Missouri football team announced they would not participate in any football-related activities until university system president Tim Wolfe resigned, saying Wolfe had failed to address racist incidents on campus. As many have noted, the players' strike ...

Today Deadspin published 47 graphic photos of a woman's bruised body.

The body belongs to Nicole Holder, the site says. The man who allegedly left the bruises? Dallas Cowboys star pass rusher Greg Hardy.

The photos came to light Friday, a year and a half after Hardy was arrested ...

The Chilean government has acknowledged that Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda might have been killed during the aftermath of the 1973 coup that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to power.

The announcement from the country's Interior Ministry came after the Spanish-language newspaper El Pais reported that a government document ...