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A small truck hit a Stockholm department store on Friday. Local news reports three are dead and a number are injured. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said the incident suggests terrorism. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Emma Lofgren, editor of the news site, "The Local Sweden."

The Turner Classic Movie Festival in Hollywood built a booth to project old films on nitrate stock. A firewall was needed. Nitrate can catch on fire and blow up — just one reason it's no longer used.

In the middle of an international debate about Syria, Bashar Assad, Russia and Iran, Trump press secretary Sean Spicer made an ill-conceived, ahistorical reference to Hitler. He later apologized.

Steroids used to be the scourge of baseball, to the extent that Congress held hearings about it. Commentator Pablo Torre of ESPN The Magazine says time has been kind to some of the worst offenders.

A Pew study released this week says that by the middle of the century there will be about 2.8 billion Muslims worldwide. Within that period, Muslims will outnumber Jews in the United States.

Following a bitterly contested election, outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan offered congratulations to his successor, Muhammadu Buhari, who said, "We must begin to heal the wounds and work towards a better future."

The controversial measure is part of an overall healthcare bill expected to pass into law. Spain, Israel and Italy have rules against ultrathin models, but none go as far as the French measure would.

Many Christian denominations officially oppose legislation that would legalize medically assisted suicide. But some individual churches, pastors and congregants are lending support to the cause.

Courts have ruled that civilians have a constitutional right to videotape police encounters in public. But civilians are not allowed to interfere with police activity.

Cell phone video led to murder charges against a S.C. police officer for the shooting death of an unarmed man. Eyewitness videos can be helpful, but they don't always result in criminal charges.