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Charles Pickett Jr. now faces five counts of second-degree murder. Police say Pickett drove his truck into a group of nine people who were riding bikes and then fled on foot.

Officer Caesar Goodson, who faces the most serious charge related to Freddie Gray's death in 2015, heads to court in Baltimore on Thursday. Two trials of other officers ended without convictions.

The world has wiped out only one human disease: smallpox. Guinea worm disease looks like it's on the verge of being the second.

The world has wiped out only one human disease: smallpox. Guinea worm disease looks like it's on the verge of being the second.

The region’s roadways have gotten safer for motorists and their passengers in recent years, but pedestrian fatalities were up 53 percent last year compared to 2007.

David Gilkey, an NPR photojournalist who chronicled pain and beauty in war and conflict, was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday along with NPR's Afghan interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna.

David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna were killed while traveling in a convoy with an Afghan army unit.

In her new book Magic and Loss, Virginia Heffernan makes the case for the Internet as art. Just look at Twitter, she says. "It's hard to think of a time when poetry was more powerful."

San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis cleared all of the officers involved in the seven fatal and three non-fatal incidents.

The move comes as the city is struggling to regain public trust in its police force in the wake of the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old.