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Forty-five years ago, the bodies of two young black men turned up, brutally mangled, in a tributary of the Mississippi River. In a new book, author Harry MacLean explores the trial of reputed Klansman James Ford Seale for the murders decades later — and Mississippi's continued struggle with its racial history.

Not just a literary movement, the Harlem Renaissance was also the name of a famous ballroom in the New York City neighborhood and a barrier-breaking basketball team. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has written a book that chronicles their histories.

You've got to get up early — before dawn, even — to really make a killing at a flea market. So says Maureen Stanton, whose new book explores the subculture. It's called Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America.

Anthropologist Paul Mullins considers the history of the doughnut in his new book, Glazed America. Mullins uses the doughnut to trace America's consumer culture.

The man convicted of killing 11 worshipers and wounding six others at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 could face the death penalty. The attack is the deadliest antisemitic assault in U.S. history.

The lack of a jackpot winner in the Friday drawing sent the top prize soaring to an estimated $820 million. The potential jackpot is the fifth largest in the history of the game, Mega Millions said.

The Olympics serve not only as an arena where the best athletes in the world compete, but also as a place where international politics collide. Former Olympic athletes discuss the long history of politics at the games: from Cold War boycotts, to Black Power protests, to today's human rights concerns in China.

Demolition got underway at the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, as part of the effort to reimagine the building to honor the 11 people who were killed there in 2018.

The jackpot, which now ranks as the eighth-largest in U.S. lottery history, has been growing for more than three months, reflecting the long odds of 1 in 292.2 million of winning the top prize.

Kamala Harris is now the first woman of color in U.S. history to become a major-party presidential nominee.