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On Sunday, a woman lights a candle at a makeshift memorial to the victims of Saturday's mass shooting at Tops market in Buffalo, N.Y.

Some are calling the Buffalo suspect a 'teenager.' Is that a privilege of his race?

1:26pm May 16, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The white supremacist suspect in Buffalo is 18 years old. Some news organizations and commentators have called him a "teenager" and "child" rather than a "man."

Angela Davis is escorted by two FBI agents after her arrest in New York on Oct. 13, 1970. She was taken from FBI headquarters to the Women's House of Detention.

This forgotten women's prison helped cement Greenwich Village's queer identity

1:06pm May 16, 2022

by Terry Gross

In his book The Women's House of Detention, Hugh Ryan writes about the New York City prison and the role it played in the gay rights movement of the '60s, including the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.

Crime scene tape on Sunday at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, Calif., after a fatal shooting.

Parishioners stop gunman in deadly California church attack

12:58pm May 16, 2022

by The Associated Press

A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church, killing one person and wounding five before parishioners hog-tied him with electrical cords.

Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia speaks at a press conference Saturday after a shooting at a supermarket.

National

The gunman had plans to continue his rampage, says Buffalo police commissioner

11:54am May 16, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Had he not been stopped by police, Buffalo Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told ABC News on Monday, the alleged perpetrator would have driven away in search of more victims.

A photo of Roberta Drury, 32, who was killed in Saturday's shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo.

National

Buffalo victim Roberta Drury, 32, is remembered as a great help to her family

10:20am May 16, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

"She would go to Tops for us all the time, actually," Moyer told NPR. "We don't really have family in the area, so it was just a great help that she could do something for us like that."

Middle school winners Harrison McDonald, Wesley Helmer, Kit Atteberry, and Blake Turley pose with librarian Misti Knight.

Education

These middle school students have a warning about teens and social media

10:08am May 16, 2022

A group of Texas middle-schoolers won NPR's 4th-annual Student Podcast Challenge, and learned a lesson about fake news and the limits of "talking digitally."

Antonio Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, addresses the media during a press conference at the Federal Chancellery, Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, May 11, 2022.

U.N. secretary-general calls Buffalo shooting 'vile act of racist violent extremism'

9:53am May 16, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

António Guterres also extended condolences to the families of the 10 people who were killed in the shooting.

A mural in Gaza City of the Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot and killed.

World News

An independent probe points to Israeli gunfire in the death of a journalist

9:51am May 16, 2022

by The Associated Press

One open-source research team said its initial findings lent support to Palestinian witnesses who said Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli fire.

A wall painted with portraits of prisoners of the Basque separatist armed group ETA, in the small village of Hernani, northern Spain, on May 2, 2018.

The U.S. will remove 5 groups from its foreign terrorism blacklist

9:04am May 16, 2022

by The Associated Press

The United States is poised to remove five extremist groups, all believed to be defunct, from its list of foreign terrorist organizations, including several that once posed significant threats.

McDonald's arrived in Moscow when Russia was still part of the Soviet Union. Tens of thousands of customers stood in line when its first restaurant opened on Jan. 31, 1990, at Moscow's Pushkin Square.

McDonald's is leaving Russia, after more than 30 years

8:43am May 16, 2022

by Bill Chappell

In 1990, the Big Mac's arrival in Moscow signaled a new era. Now McDonald's is tearing down the golden arches and writing off its investment in Russia.