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Taylor armed and assisted fighters in neighboring Sierra Leone in exchange for "blood diamonds." During a brutal war that ended 10 years ago, about 50,000 people died in Sierra Leone.

A day after Hillary Clinton called for a Justice Department investigation into Chicago police's handling of the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, Mayor Rahm Emanuel reversed course to support one.

Rep. Paul Ryan could run, with or without support from the Freedom Caucus. Or he could choose not to run, leaving Boehner or perhaps a new candidate to fill the speaker's chair.

The plan could lower premium prices but also disproportionately hit low-income Americans.

In an era of national attention to what's real and what isn't, we asked educators to share their strategies for helping students sort out fact from fiction.

President Trump's former attorney testifies in public before a congressional panel. Trump is in Vietnam for a second summit with North Korea's leader. India and Pakistan at odds again over Kashmir.

Liane Hansen speaks with award-winning poet Li-Young Lee (LEE OUNG-LEE) about his first book of prose, "The Winged Seed - A Remembrance." Simon & Schuster) Lee's account describes the turbulent and colorful history of is family, starting in the early 1950's when his parents fled Indonesia and ame to the United States.

Daniel Zwerdling talks to Detective Rick Sexton, the composite sketch artist for Fairfax county police about how he goes about sketching a suspect based on witness accounts. Sexton says he very often waits to interview people for a sketch until they're more calm and relaxed, even if that means they forget a few details about a suspects appearance.

Beth Fertig of member station W-N-Y-C reports on the deteriorating condition of New York City Public School buildings. According to a study by the General Accounting Office, one-third of the nation's school buildings need major repairs. Fertig visits Public School 73 in Brooklyn, which is still heated by coal, and where the walls need to be repaired.

Osteoporosis affects some 10 million Americans now, and those numbers are likely to grow as the baby boom generation ages. Wendy Schmelzer reports on a study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, which finds that a drug treatment used by women to treat osteoporosis works just as well for men. That's important, because men account for 20 percent of those affected.