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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Congressman John Conyers Jr. about his role in the 1967 Detroit Uprising, and what its legacy on the city is today.

One Charlottesville, Va., elementary school teacher grapples with how to have this conversation with her students the week after the violence erupted in her city just as a new school year is about to begin.

Madison County's prosecutor interprets state law to say that schools should only require a quarantine if students have physical contact with a COVID-positive person. The county's board of health followed that interpretation, which makes the county unique among other counties in its quarantine protocols.

American reporter Jill Carroll was set free Thursday, nearly three months after she was kidnapped in a bloody ambush that killed her translator. She said she had been treated well.

The Justice Department will compare U.S. and British anti-terror laws to see if any British tactics should be adopted. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has expressed interest in the powers held by his U.K. counterparts, including the ability to hold terrorism suspects without charge for up to 28 days. But the U.S. Constitution could doom tougher detention laws. And U.S. officials may already have enough power to effectively pursue terrorists.

A report in Thursday's USA Today reveals that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been secretly collecting records from AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth documenting phone calls within the United States. The agency reportedly wants to create a database of calls to help track terrorist activity. Madeleine Brand speaks with USA Today reporter Leslie Cauley, who broke the story.

The Fire Department of New York releases oral histories and audio from Sept. 11, 2001. Crowded radio frequencies may explain in part why firefighters stayed in the north tower of the World Trade Center 29 minutes after the south tower fell.

In an attempt to curb high inflation, the Federal Reserve is expected this week to begin raising interest rates for the first time in three years.

President Obama tried to reassure a nervous nation following the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. He also cautioned against a military over-reaction.

The incident, which was caught on video, marks the second deadly shooting by federal officers in Minneapolis in less than a month.