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NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo was found guilty of using a banned chokehold but not guilty of intentionally restricting Garner's breathing in 2014. The department says he has now been suspended.

A dam that failed in Michigan in May isn't the only one at risk — thousands of aging dams nationwide are not just in poor shape but weren't built for today's heavier rains caused by climate change.

A new HBO documentary explores the mental health challenges of Olympic athletes. The Weight Of Gold is deep and revealing. It is also problematically not diverse.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Human Rights Watch's Lama Fakih about the Syrian reaction to Asmaa Al-Assad's declaration she is cancer free — while hospitals in Syria continue to be bombed.

The late NPR music librarian Robert Goldstein was at Woodstock. We offer his "Parable of the Hot Dogs" on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the festival.

"The ceiling heights were 4.5 feet to 6 feet tall on each level, depending on where you were standing," says a spokesperson for the New York City Department of Buildings.

Hundreds have been killed by landmines in South Korea since the Korean War. Experts say most of the remaining mines serve no military purpose, yet the U.S. and South Korea refuse to ban their use.

In Youngstown, Ohio, The Vindicator stops publication on Saturday after 150 years, signaling one more gut punch to a struggling city. With a news desert, who will guard the civic henhouse?

When the bell rings, it's reading time. At over 70 chapters around the world, people gather at Silent Book Clubs to read whatever they like, as long as it's in silence.

TV networks have standards that minimize tobacco use on shows, and Netflix now does, too. But streaming companies lack public policies about smoking cannabis onscreen, and doctors say that hurts kids.