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A man and a woman, wearing "assault-style clothing" were killed in a shootout with police, says Police Chief Jarrod Burguan. A third person is detained but their connection has been determined yet.

The move against President Dilma Rousseff injects a new element of instability into the political landscape in Brazil, which is being roiled by corruption scandals and a sharp economic downturn.

At least 14 are dead and 17 wounded after a shooting at a California social services facility on Wednesday.

Linda Wertheimer talks to Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA and the author of Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America.

Steve Inskeep speaks with Mark Kelly, founder of Americans for Responsible Solutions. Kelly's wife is Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona congresswoman who was shot in the head by a gunman in 2011.

Medicare insurance plans for drugs vary widely in the medicines they cover. For 2016, some patients who pick the wrong plan could pay nearly $12,000 out of pocket annually for a single drug.

Linda Wertheimer speaks with San Bernardino Sun crime reporter Beatriz Valenzuela about reaction in the California community to Wednesday's mass shooting.

The process to open combat jobs to women began in January of 2013; Thursday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter made it official across all branches of the U.S. military.

A day after Hillary Clinton called for a Justice Department investigation into Chicago police's handling of the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, Mayor Rahm Emanuel reversed course to support one.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Tim Eaton, project manager at Chatham House's Syria and its Neighbor Policy Initiative, about the shift in British attitudes toward military action in Syria. In 2013, Parliament voted against air strikes; on Thursday, Prime Minister David Cameron said that bombing ISIS targets in Syria would make the U.K. safer.