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Caleb Schwab, 10, was decapitated in 2016, when the raft he was riding down the Verruckt waterslide went airborne and hit a metal pole. The slide was the tallest in the world when it opened in 2014.

Sharif's daughter and son-in-law also got prison terms Friday over the scandal that doomed his premiership last year. It's unclear when the Sharifs, who are in London, would serve their penalties.

The two-term French president was the first chief executive to acknowledge France's collaboration in the Holocaust. And he famously rejected U.S. calls to invade Iraq.

Katie Visco said it was a "pinch" that drove her to undertake such an ambitious task with her husband in support. "I had been dreaming about this for a while," she tells NPR.

Hollywood's film industry can be tough to break in to, and that's especially true if you are a poor kid without resources. Creating Creators is all about changing that — and it's having some success.

The jurors unanimously found Scott Warren not guilty of federal charges of harboring undocumented immigrants. Such prosecutions have risen under President Trump's hard-line immigration policies.

David Greene talks to marine biologist James McClintock about how warming temperatures are impacting glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula, and consequences of a global rise in sea level.

In 1886, sailors on a German barque called Paula tossed a gin bottle containing a message into waters hundreds of miles off the coast of Australia. It's been uncovered on Australia's Wedge Island.

Starbucks plans to close 8,000 stores for an afternoon to give employees racial bias training. Will it work? You can retrain your brain to see people differently but not over a short period of time.

NPR's Rachel Martin gets an update from Nevada Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto on the investigation and prospects for a new gun control debate after Sunday's mass shooting in Las Vegas.