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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with the Southern Poverty Law Center's Heidi Beirich about attorney Larry Klayman, who is representing George Zimmerman in a suit against Trayvon Martin's family.

There are lots of reasons U.S. foreign aid can be held up or frozen. There's even a law that governs the issue. But many experts say what happened over the summer with Ukraine is highly irregular.

Four people are dead and eight people were injured in the shooting. Deputies who responded to the scene engaged the attacker in a shootout in a classroom building.

Democrats had offered to allow the president to have attorneys representing him at future impeachment hearings in the House.

The Tesla CEO was embroiled in a Twitter spat with one of the rescuers of 12 boys and their soccer coach in Thailand last year.

An 8-year-old girl was strip searched at Buckingham Correctional Center last month. A prison spokesperson says the prison staffer who approved the search didn't have the authority to do so.

As the nation prepares for impeachment proceedings, we look back at how lawmakers drafted articles of impeachment during the Nixon and Clinton presidencies, times of greater bi-partisanship.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Carrie DeCell, one of the lawyers on Doc Society v. Pompeo, a legal challenge to rules that want all visa applicants to register their social media with the government.

A viral video showed world leaders appearing to mock President Trump, a rising death toll in Iran and more.

Police officers in South Florida exchanged gunfire with two armed robbers Thursday. The resulting skirmish ended with both suspects dead, along with a hostage and a bystander.

Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders suggested that prosecutors covered for law enforcement, helping to keep systematic mishandling of evidence out of public view. "The implications are massive."

NPR found the vast majority of student loan borrowers with disabilities aren't getting the debt relief they're owed. Now, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is asking for an investigation.