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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez for the latest on the investigation into the shooting of five police officers in the city.

Friday night in Chicago, a 13-year-old boy named Zarriel Trotter — who last year appeared in an anti-violence PSA — was hit by a stray bullet. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with his principal, Elizabeth Jamison-Dunn.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with Neta Crawford, co-director of the Cost of War Project, about civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan at the hands of U.S. military strikes.

Jeanine Menze was discouraged from pursuing her dream to fly planes when she didn't see any women of color in the field. Then she met La'Shanda Holmes. "When I met you, I saw myself," Menze told her.

President Obama speaks about unity at a memorial service for the Dallas police officers killed last week.

Nashville has long been associated with country music. But a museum devoted to African-American music, which opened earlier this year, sets the record straight about the city's diversity

The song "Electric Relaxation" from the hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest officially hit the airwaves 25 years ago this month. The single came off their classic album, Midnight Marauders.

A tiny bird called the Florida grasshopper sparrow is on the brink of extinction. Fewer than 150 are believed to remain in the wild.

Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos' district went for President Trump and she did not back impeachment until the Ukraine scandal. On Friday, she talked to students in her district about the Constitution.

Congress is looking more likely to pass a law restricting members' investments in firms about which they have inside information, thanks to a television report last year and President Obama's call during his State of the Union speech.