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Amid calls in the community for healing, Vice President Joe Biden attended a memorial service in Baton Rouge, La., for three law enforcement officers killed July 17. He said their deaths "touched the soul of the entire nation."

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks to Nationwide Mutual Chief Economist David Berson about what's behind the recent rise in home sales.

The largest protests in Nigeria in decades have shut down Lagos, Africa's largest city. For nearly two weeks, young people have been protesting police brutality and the lack of opportunity.

Mario Gonzalez, 26, died in police custody on April 19. Body camera footage showed police pinning him to the ground for several minutes.

It was one of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball. The last inning of Game 7 of the World Series. Bill Mazeroski took the plate and hit it out of the park, winning the World Series for Pittsburgh and raising the morale of a city that was losing its steel industry. For years, fans of the Pirates have gathered at the spot where the field stood to re-create that moment at 3:36 pm.

Hungarians have taken to the streets of Budapest to protest plans build a Chinese university there.

After a decision by UEFA to deny Munich's plan to light up its arena to protest a new Hungarian law seen as homophobic, other stadiums across the country said they would go ahead anyway.

Behind the walls at Emerson High School in Oklahoma City, construction workers found old chalkboards with drawings and class lessons, written almost a century ago and in remarkable condition.

In an open letter to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, the Harlem Globetrotters demanded the team join the league as a franchise.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Ted Leopold, co-lead counsel for the people of Flint, Mich., after a judge approved a settlement for victims of the city's water crisis.