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Lt. Melissa McFadden, who is Black, filed a civil rights lawsuit against the City of Columbus in 2018.

Staff Sgt. Richard Pisano Jr., 44, and 1st Lt. Nick Pisano, 24, were assigned to the same Army division by chance, according to published reports. They're safely home, having both won a Bronze Star.

TikTok’s survival in the U.S. is riding on the outcome of the hearing. Federal judges peppered both the Justice Department and TikTok with skeptical questions about the ban, which takes effect in January.

Michael D. Johnson will begin his tenure as John Carroll University’s 25th president on July 1, 2018. Johnson, who currently serves as Provost of Babson College in Massachusetts, was elected to head the Cleveland-area university by its Board of Directors Dec. 6. His contract will extend through 2023. At Babson, Johnson oversees all academic affairs and serves as a Professor of Marketing. He will continue that teaching role at John Carroll, joining the Boler School of Business as a professor in its department of Management, Marketing and Supply Chain.

A video that has garnered more than 9 million views on Twitter shows two black men being arrested at a Starbucks in Philadelphia, drawing accusations of racial profiling.

A jury had awarded $4.7 billion in damages to subscribers after it ruled the NFL violated antitrust laws in distributing out-of-market Sunday afternoon games on a premium subscription service.

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter star in the drama On Swift Horses, while Ben Affleck reprises his role as a money-laundering expert in the action thriller The Accountant 2.

The U.S. is training and equipping both sides in the Iraq-Kurdistan stand-off along with Syrian opposition forces in the battle against ISIS and the Assad regime. It has created a tangled web with no clear end game.

The Defense Department investigates the contents of a trailer it says may have been used as a mobile biological weapons lab. A U.S. official says the trailer, recovered April 19 near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, has all the equipment of a lab, but that preliminary tests have not turned up any evidence of banned biological agents. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt.

Iraqis in the holy city of Najaf denounce U.S. support for an interim Sunni Muslim mayor and call for immediate elections. Najaf is home to a shrine sacred to Shia Muslims, who make up a majority of the country's population. American administrators, who have delayed elections twice, say they need more time to organize a legal vote. Hear NPR's Nick Spicer.