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The federal trial in the death of George Floyd goes to jurors following more than four weeks of testimony from the three ex-police officers who were on duty with Derek Chauvin when he killed Floyd.

There are more than 30,000 post office branches across the United States. Most do make money, but thousands, mostly in rural areas, cost more to operate than they take in.

Millions of Afghans are on the brink of starvation. NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Naser Shahalemi, founder of the group End Afghan Starvation, about how the U.S. is splitting up the Afghan assets.

The actor made the pledge as she ended her marriage to Johnny Depp, saying she would split $7 million between the ACLU and a children's hospital. Depp's defamation case against Heard is ongoing.

Sixty years ago, an angry white mob grabbed two black couples from a car, beat them and shot them to death. Townsfolk remained quiet about what they knew. Now, the FBI is reexamining the case.

A U.N. report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri implicates Syria in his death and raises more dark questions about Syrian involvement in Lebanon.

Newsweek apologizes to victims of deadly protests in Afghanistan and acknowledges reporting errors in a May 9 report that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay desecrated the Quran. The magazine has acknowledged some reporting errors in the item.

The human brain definitely differs from the brains of our primate relatives. But how did we get such big brains? A paper in the journal Nature says part of the answer may lie in a snippet of DNA buried deep in the human genome.

Will the U.S. be able to salvage the remnants of the Summit of the Americas? And what does the growing boycott mean for U.S. influence in Latin America?

The House of Representatives approves an $82 billion supplemental spending bill that also seeks to impose new restrictions on state-issued driver's licenses. The package is a compromise worked out with the Senate, which is expected to add its approval next week.