Law enforcement officers search for Francisco Oropesa, who is suspected of shooting and killing five people in a Cleveland, Texas, home early Saturday. Go Nakamura/Getty Images hide caption
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Sunday
Bay St. Louis police, Hancock County sheriff's deputies and Waveland police respond to a shooting in Bay St. Louis, Miss., early Sunday morning. Justin Mitchell/AP hide caption
Saint Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, Calif., commemorates every murder in the city with wooden crosses in its front garden. The city's homicide rate remains stubbornly high while its murder clearance rate remains well under the already low national average. Eric Westervelt/NPR hide caption
More people are getting away with murder. Unsolved killings reach a record high
Alan Ayers in 1970 and today, reflecting on what could have happened. Alan Ayers hide caption
Saturday
Rabbi Harold Kushner, seen here on July 10, 2008, had a way with words that resonated with readers across the world and across religions. Ariel Kushner Haber hide caption
In this screen grab from video provided by KTVB-TV, sheep move along state Highway 55 as they cross the road near Eagle, Idaho, on Monday. KTVB-TV via AP hide caption
Law enforcement respond to a crime scene where five people, including an 8-year-old child, were killed after a shooting inside a home on Saturday in Cleveland, Texas. Go Nakamura/Getty Images hide caption
The introduction of the women's peace petition, which began in 1923 in Wales. WCIA hide caption
A forgotten peace petition started after WWI has resurfaced and is inspiring hope
Susan Greenstein Prescott in high school. Susan Greenstein Prescott hide caption
Biofire founder Kai Kloepfer says his goal in creating this 9mm smart gun is to "have an incremental positive impact on sort of the uniquely American challenge of gun deaths." Biofire hide caption
Noah Reich, left, and David Maldonado, the Los Angeles co-founders of Classroom of Compassion, put up a memorial Nov. 22, 2022, with photographs of the five victims of a weekend mass shooting at a nearby gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo. David Zalubowski/AP hide caption
A traveler looks at a flight board with delays and cancellations at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., on Jan. 11, 2023. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol on April 26, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
In this photo released by the U.S. Army, AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopters from the 1st Attack Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, fly over a mountain range near Fort Wainwright, Alaska, on June 3, 2019. Cameron Roxberry/AP hide caption
Friday
Doctor LeRoy Carhart, poses during the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, for the documentary After Tiller. Victoria Will/Invision/AP hide caption