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Details are emerging about Omar Mateen, the man authorities say killed 49 people in Orlando. David Greene talks to Clint Van Zandt, a ex-behaviorist with the FBI who helped profile the Unabomber.

The animal attacked the child after 9 p.m. on Tuesday, pulling him into the water. Authorities said his body was found intact.

The North Carolina General Assembly is considering a catch-all regulatory reform bill that would, among other things, end the ban on dumping electronics…

Political battles are escalating in Raleigh and north Mecklenburg this week over the NCDOT's plan for toll lanes on I-77 north of Charlotte. On Wednesday,…

Bernie Sanders has raised at least $209 million from small donors online while shunning big money players. Now, Democrats hope Sanders will share his fundraising list with down-ballot candidates.

Donald Trump announced Wednesday via Twitter that he wants the NRA to support legislation barring gun sales to people on the government's terrorist watch list.

The ex-wife of Omar Mateen — who attacked an Orlando, Fla., nightclub killing at least 49 people — has described suffering physical and psychological abuse from Mateen during their marriage. NPR's Kelly McEvers speaks to Deborah Epstein of Georgetown University about the possible connections between domestic violence and mass shootings.

Investigators in Orlando are pursuing reports the shooter at Pulse nightclub used gay dating apps and was seen at the club several times before. There's speculation that the shooter could have been motivated by self-hatred as a closeted gay man. But Gregory Herek, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, urges caution.

Comedian Tig Notaro shot to fame in 2012, talking candidly onstage about having cancer. Now she's in remission, recently married and the author of a new memoir called I'm Just A Person.

Merrick Garland delivered a commencement address Wednesday at a Washington, D.C., elementary school where he has been a tutor for nearly two decades.

The U.S. continues to lag other countries in STEM education, and new hires in science and tech overwhelmingly tend to be white and Asian men.

The spiritual leader, visiting the White House, offered condolences for the shootings in Orlando. China, as usual, condemned the meeting, saying it encourages Tibetan separatists.

"We can't keep updated lists. It's just impossible to do that," says Michael Ryan, executive director of the New York City Board Of Elections.

The computer network at the Democratic National Committee has been breached by Russian hackers. Renee Montagne talks to Dmitri Alperovitch, CrowdStrike co-founder and chief technology officer.

Joyce Kenney says a masked man kidnapped her in Middletown, Ohio. The Journal-News says he forced her to drive through the city. She didn't have pepper spray but sprayed him in the eyes with perfume.

CNN's Juana Summers and ABC's Rick Klein discuss where the Trump, Clinton and Sanders campaigns are now, on gun control and terrorism.

Millions of dollars are pouring into various funds to help the families of the victims and the survivors of the Pulse nightclub attack.

While covering the aftermath of the shooting at Pulse in Orlando, NPR's Ari Shapiro realizes he went there over a decade ago, and revisits his memory.

A federal judge approved prosecutors' motion to end a trial of FedEx in San Francisco, but didn't specify a reason. A grand jury indicted the shipping company in 2014. The trial started Monday.

June Leaf sculpts, paints and draws and she's been doing it for most of her 86 years. Now she's got a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.