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A new report says the U.S. has the 28th-highest rate in the world: 4.43 deaths due to gun violence per 100,000 people in 2017. By contrast, Bangladesh saw 0.07 deaths per 100,000 people.

Turkey's president says he gave tapes of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to a number of western countries, including the U.S. The Trump Administration still faces pressure to respond.

An expert told the Senate Intelligence Committee that there is dramatically more fake information than genuine conversation from automated accounts on the extreme ends of the political spectrum.

NPR's Michel Martin gets an assessment of President Trump's former campaign chair Paul Manafort's guilty plea from former federal prosecutor Seth Waxman.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse about sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who says Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her when they were in high school, is a professor and research psychologist in California.

French authorities say they're using this solution to try to supplement existing toilets in heavily congested areas where there are urine issues.

The Trump administration recently announced it was no longer giving money to a program for Palestinian refugees. In cutting the funding, the U.S. shifted away from decades of policy.

While Hurricane Florence has been downgraded, officials in the Carolinas say that just because it's weakening does not mean it's not posing a serious threat.

Facebook says a vulnerability allowed attackers to gain full access to some users' accounts; it's not yet clear whether any accounts were actually misused. The company says the problem has been fixed.