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President Bush on Tuesday led grieving students, faculty and families in a convocation in Blacksburg, Va., for the 32 people killed Monday by a lone gunman in a shooting on the Virginia Tech campus. The dead and injured were remembered in speeches and prayers. Seung-Hui Cho shot himself after the rampage. Police are investigating what drove him to his murderous assault.

A decades-long investigation into the murder of the rapper appeared to take another turn this week after Las Vegas police searched a home in Henderson, Nev.

British authorities have arrested 24 suspects in their investigation into an alleged plan to blow up as many as 10 aircraft bound from London to the United States, using liquid chemicals carried in hand luggage. Many, if not all, of the suspects are believed to be British citizens of Pakistani origin.

The destruction of 500 tons of nerve and mustard agent had been decades in the making, and the stockpile had been stored at the Blue Grass Army Depot in eastern Kentucky.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with reporter Shalu Yadav about the deadly train crash in India Friday night.

Tania Head was one of the most visible survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks. She'd been in the south tower of the World Trade Center, lost her fiance in the north tower, and devoted her life to getting recognition for survivors. Just one problem: Her entire story was fake.

The attempt to be both like Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and in contrast to him has overshadowed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' presidential campaign.

The conditions closed rail links, schools and roads in some areas. Amtrak said no passenger trains will run between Seattle and Portland, Oregon, until Thursday because of a landslide.

Some believe Moscow's seizing on the Islamic State's rise in Afghanistan as an opportunity to expand Russian influence. A flurry of visits to Moscow by Afghan officials added to speculation, and kindled concerns among Afghans with grim memories of Soviet occupation in the 1980s, although no one predicts troops on the ground.

A 12-year-old East Jerusalem Palestinian boy playing with fireworks was shot and killed by an Israeli border police officer. Israel's attorney general has launched an investigation.