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The German city of Munich is in shock today, after nine people and a gunman died in a mass shooting Friday. Police are trying to determine the motive of the 18-year-old shooter.

Fifty-seven people received payments totaling $5.5 million. "Reparations is not a necessity. But it is a moral compunction and a moral reckoning to right a wrong," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Lawyer and journalist Adam Cohen explores five decades of Supreme Court opinions and comes to a rueful conclusion: These decisions have greatly exacerbated the space between rich and poor.

Is geography destiny? It goes against the core idea of the American dream, but a new online data tool says where you were born and raised actually makes a huge difference — down to the very block.

Justice Department officials announced a package of federal prison reforms intended to better prepare inmates for a safe return to their communities.

The Florida police officer arrested a couple for shoplifting and then played Barry White for them as they smoked and made out in his patrol car, according to The Associated Press.

Free speech is not absolute. But the sweeping nature of the First Amendment puts the United States at odds with most of the world.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has pardoned some 100 political prisoners, including two journalists at Al-Jazeera's English-language network. For more, Renee Montagne talks with Leila Fadel.

Congress made it an official day in 1964. Now it's a worldwide event — with special meaning in the developing world.

Stream the debut EP by one of our favorite new artists of 2018.

Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was convicted on corruption charges last year but has remained free while appealing the verdict. He says the case against him is politically motivated.

Aden Batar directs a refugee resettlement program in Utah. It is the same organization that helped resettle his family 25 years ago, when they fled a harrowing civil war in Somalia.