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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with San Jose Councilmember Raul Peralez about one victim of Wednesday's shooting at a rail yard in Northern California.

Daniel Garcia of Houston, Texas has been evicted from his home. He shares what that experience has been like for him and his family as part of our Outbreak Voices series.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with James Miervaldis, chairman of No One Left Behind — which helps Afghan and Iraqi interpreters resettle in the U.S. — on issues with the Special Immigrant Visa program.

Hillary Clinton will hold her first campaign events in Iowa Tuesday since announcing her 2016 bid for the White House. What can we expect to see? Her aides say to think small.

Trials are underway to see how effective a pill approved for HIV prevention in adults may be for teenagers. But some worry Truvada could end up encouraging reckless sexual behavior among young people.

A new app called Be My Eyes pairs blind people with sighted volunteers who help them with daily tasks that require vision, at home and outside. It's part of a new "micro-volunteering" trend online.

Ben Lecomte wants to be the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean — a 5,500-mile journey. Doctors will monitor his heart remotely to see how intensive exercise affects this vital muscle.

The only known assailant in the shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers has been identified as a 25-year-old former member of the U.S. Army Reserves. Before he was killed by a robot-delivered bomb, Micah Xavier Johnson told police he was acting alone and wanted to kill white people, especially white police officers.

President Obama held a year-end news conference Friday as he prepared to head off to Hawaii for the holidays. He answered questions about the fight against terrorism, and touted some successes.

John Walker Lindh was a middle-class kid in Northern California who converted to Islam, traveled the world, and was captured by U.S. authorities in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, allegedly fighting alongside the Taliban. Now, he's suing the government over religious rights at a secret prison facility.

A church that earlier denied the severity of COVID-19 changed its messaging after an outbreak. But another church continues to say mask wearers and the vaccinated aren't welcome at worship services.

After losing jobs during the pandemic, more and more women are becoming truck drivers. Many have been attracted by the high demand and higher pay.

Teen courts and restorative justice are focused on cutting off the "school-to-prison pipeline."

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Narro talks to Destinee Adams, a college senior, who co-wrote an article about the negative impacts of Instagram on her mental health and on her generation for TIME.

Jarrod Ramos admitted to killing five people in the Capital Gazette's newsroom in 2018. Prosecutors sought multiple life prison terms for the attack.

An extreme right-wing member of Israel's parliament is accused of stirring up violence. He, however, says he's standing up for his view of Israel as a Jewish state.

Former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro what he thinks the recent raids on Trump attorney Michael Cohen might mean for the president.

Many Palestinian stabbing attacks against Israelis have come from the West Bank city of Hebron. One activist is urging his fellow Palestinians to find other ways to oppose Israel.

Former Pinterest employee Ifeoma Ozoma risked a lawsuit when she made public her allegations of workplace discrimination and harassment. She hopes California will ban contracts like the one she had.

Dan Gebhart and Jordan Anderson are mushroom foraging friends in California that came across $4,000 worth of chanterelles — a highly coveted wild mushroom.

Kraken fan and future medical student Nadia Popovici alerted Canucks staffer Brian Hamilton to a suspicious mole, which turned out to be cancerous. The teams surprised her with a $10,000 scholarship.

North Korea claimed Thursday to have conducted the second successful test flight of a hypersonic missile. Wednesday's launch was the North's first known weapons test in about two months.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a measure criminalizing reporting that contradicts the government's version of events.

Critics, including the National Park Service, said exploding rockets after launch could rain fiery debris onto surrounding land, including a federally protected wilderness.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Marc Duvoison, the editor in chief of the San Antonio Express-News, about the shooting that left 15 dead at a Texas elementary school and is known about the shooter.