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James Long, one of three officers involved in the incident, is also suing his former employer, the Chicago Department of Aviation and its commissioner, saying he wasn't adequately trained.

The company that makes NECCO wafers may be closing. One 23-year-old candy fan offered her car for the company's stock of the candy.

A team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons plans to begin investigating the attack in Douma by Saturday. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis called the attack "inexcusable."

Matthew Desmond estimates that 2.3 million evictions were filed in the U.S. in 2016 — a rate of four every minute. "Eviction isn't just a condition of poverty; it's a cause of poverty," he says.

Sean Simpson has spoken in favor of gun control efforts — and has also said he might be open to the idea of carrying a gun in class.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons also noted the poison used against the Skripals "was of high purity." The U.K. has concluded a state actor — namely, Russia — carried it out.

Harvey, Irma, Maria and Nate will no longer be on the U.N.'s official rotating list of storm names. The hurricanes killed hundreds of people and caused billions of dollars in damage.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Professor Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina about how social media impacts people's social connections and private lives.

Rami Nashashibi of the Inner City Muslim Action Network sees social work as a solution to the apathy that leads people away from religion.

The most talked about baseball player so far this season is Los Angeles Angel Shohei Ohtani. He's electrified people with his pitching and hitting. It's an unusual talent to be good at both. But how rare is it?