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It was a violent weekend in El Paso, Dayton and Chicago.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Los Angeles Times reporter Barbara Demick about how she helped reunite a girl who was stolen from her mother with her twin and family in China.

When she was 19, Renee Bach founded a charity that went on to care for over 900 severely malnourished babies and children. Now she is being sued by two of the mothers whose children died.

Kira Jane Buxton's novel imagines a viral apocalypse from the perspective of the animals left behind. Specifically, a crow named S.T., who sets out to save the world with his canine companion.

Ruth Ware's new novel is a clever update on Henry James' classic of paranoia, but instead of ghosts, Ware's characters are haunted by unknowable, unpredictable smart homes and surveillance technology.

Inmates from the Cook County jail in Chicago just competed in the first international online chess tournament of its kind. NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with their coach, Mikhail Korenman.

In After the Wedding, she plays the head of an orphanage who is clearly uncomfortable around wealth. In her own life, she's dealt with a controversy where she was paid much less than a male co-star.

Toni Morrison, a Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, meant so much to so many. Listeners honor her legacy by reading their favorite Morrison quotes.

Sarah M. Broom's debut memoir The Yellow House tells the sprawling tale of a family in New Orleans East and the home that was wiped away by Hurricane Katrina. She talks with NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer.

The Massachusetts senator introduced a sweeping gun control plan Saturday. She also said people have to maintain pressure on President Trump for more immediate change.