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With Nigeria's president saying Boko Haram is "technically defeated," we assess its current strength. The Islamist insurgents have lost ground but still terrorize the nation with suicide bombs.

This Year will likely be the hottest year on record. Climate change is partly to blame, but so is El Nino. That's the weather pattern from the Pacific that affects weather in the America's as well.

About 100 people gathered Sunday outside the home where police shot and killed two people early Saturday. The Cook County medical examiner's office has listed the manner of both deaths as homicides.

Prison officials allowed her to compete under armed guard, according to the BBC. And though she did not win the contest, the country's prisons minister announced she was being released on parole.

The player dubbed the "clown prince of basketball" was 83.

Mustafa Alnour Alhassan is 26. He's dying of mycetoma, a flesh-eating fungal infection. It can be treated — but in poor countries treatment is not readily available.

"The evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police," Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy McGinty told reporters, calling it a "perfect storm of human error."

Rice family attorney Walter Madison told us he is 'disappointed' by the decision, but focused on the family's needs.

In looking back on her favorite reads from 2015, NPR arts correspondent Lynn Neary realized that many of them were short story collections.

Secretary of State John Kerry said the move was "one of the most significant steps" in fulfilling the July nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers.