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Jurors often are reluctant to acquit someone who committed a crime while mentally ill, or to find that person guilty. So they take a third option: guilty but mentally ill. It's far from perfect.

It's a ritual of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community in India. An effort to get the government to outlaw the practice has sparked debate — and verbal attacks.

Black Lives Matter protesters challenged former President Bill Clinton on the 1994 crime bill during a campaign stop for his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday. Critics of the bill, which Clinton signed into law, say it is responsible for the mass incarceration of African-Americans. Others say it reduced crime. Fordham Law Professor John Pfaff says they're both wrong.

The non-profit began 140 years ago to provide New York City children with an outdoor summer experience.

Now that Hillary Clinton has become the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee, NPR takes a moment to reflect on the campaign of her rival, Bernie Sanders.

Hillary Clinton has clinched the Democratic nomination in 2016 by learning lessons from her loss eight years earlier. The way she handled that loss started her on this path.

Just before the Brock Turner case sparked fresh outrage, a federal agency issued its latest list of inquiries into how such cases are handled on U.S. campuses. Stanford tops the list, with five cases.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Charles Ramsey, former police commissioner in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, about the deadly shooting of five Dallas police officers.

In an effort to reach out to minority voters, Trump met with a group of Black and Hispanic leaders on Thursday. Scott Simon speaks with Pastor Mark Burns, who's supported Trump since the primaries.

Defections appear to be on the rise, but it's difficult to tell what that means about relations between North and South — or the stability of Kim Jong Un's regime.