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The first foreign climbers have reached the summit of Mount Everest for the first time in two years. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Jamling Tenzing Norgay at base camp about the lasting impact of the avalanches of 2014 and 2015 on the climbers, industry and environment.

At least 84 people have been killed in the French city of Nice after a truck plowed into a crowd there. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston explains the latest on the investigation into that attack.

The Trump campaign is naming Breitbart News' Stephen Bannon as chief executive, and is also promoting pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager. Paul Manafort will stay on as campaign chairman.

Now crowned as their parties' official nominees, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hit the campaign trail. One of the first stops for both candidates: the battleground state of Ohio.

Camp Century was a research station and test site for deploying nuclear missiles before it was abandoned under the ice in the '60s. Scientists say pollutants left behind may spread as the ice melts.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has been outspoken in his disdain for what he considers New York's liberal ethos. Polls show Cruz's comments are not going over well among the state's Republican voters.

Washington stars as Anita Hill in the new HBO film Confirmation.She was 14 during the 1991 hearings, and says it's the first time she remembers her parents having different points of view.

Longtime Fox News host Gretchen Carlson is accusing the network's boss Roger Ailes of sexual harassment. Carlson alleges her contract was not renewed after she rebuffed repeated sexual advances from Ailes. The Fox News CEO and chairman did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

"A warrant has been issued for her arrest," Tulsa's district attorney says of Betty Shelby, the police officer who shot and killed Terence Crutcher last Friday.

The scene plays out under bright sunlight, from a vantage point that's a short distance away from the confrontation between Keith Lamont Scott and Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers.