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None of the six officers facing charges in Freddie Gray's death were convicted. Law professor David Jaros talks about what happened and why police officer convictions are uncommon.

In 2010, months after Haiti's devastating quake, a catastrophic cholera epidemic began. Scientists traced the outbreak to U.N. peacekeepers. Nearly six years later, the U.N. has acknowledged a role.

Stettheimer, who died in 1944, had only one public showing of her paintings during her lifetime. Now the Jewish Museum in New York has the first new exhibit of her work in more than 20 years.

If Lucy Nabiki Takona passes the silver guiding exam this month, she will be only the second Masai woman to reach this level.

The last time Joyce Arterberry heard her grown son sing, was when he was living as a little girl. Her son, Tom Kennard, is a transgender man who is part of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus on tour in the South.

NPR's Ari Shapiro checks back in with Ahmed Badr, an Iraqi refugee who started a website to help other young people tell their own stories. Badr just finished his sophomore year at Wesleyan University and has even more projects underway since he last talked to NPR.

A review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the latest in the intergalactic franchise. Fans are especially excited to see what happens to General Leia, played by Carrie Fisher, who died earlier this year.

The Country Music Association stirred controversy late last week by threatening journalists with expulsion if they asked any questions about the Las Vegas massacre or musicians' positions on guns.

Brought in to restore peace and stabilize the western hemisphere's poorest nation, the U.N. force, which at its height had more than 7,000 troops, has left a mixed and sometimes deadly legacy.

Authorities say the gunman was a former student who went into the school, heavily armed and started shooting. When it was all over, 17 people were dead. The suspect is in police custody.