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Robert Siegel and Audie Cornish have the latest on the shooting early Friday morning at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. The gunman opened fire during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises.

We ask neighbors in Aurora, Colo., what they know about the suspected movie theater shooter, James Holmes.

At the National Auctioneer Championships in Spokane, Wash., we find out just what makes a winning auctioneer.

In the wake of the Aurora massacre, our comics blogger explores the meaning of the violence that's such an integral part of the Batman mythos — and suggests that in the face of real horror, our fictional heroes mean more than ever.

She said the bloodshed she witnessed in Toronto had taught her to cherish every moment in life.

President Obama's campaign committee reported more cash-on-hand than Mitt Romney's in Friday's monthly report. But Obama's campaign spending far outstripped fundraising in June. Meanwhile, financial support for Romney has been flowing in from many different places.

Police are still not saying what motivated the gunman who walked into a crowded Aurora, Colo., movie theater and opened fired. Suspect James Holmes, 24, was apprehended immediately after the attack. Until recently, he was a grad student studying neuroscience.

An American conductor explains why Russian music suits her Sao Paolo orchestra.

A new book about global attitudes to the AIDS epidemic in Africa says lays some of the blame at writer Joseph Conrad's door. Conrad's Heart of Darkness, says author Uzodinma Iweala, connected inferiority and disease with Africans in way which is still evident today. Host Scott Simon talks the author about Our Kind of People.

In the unfolding LIBOR scandal, attention has shifted to why U.S. financial regulators, who knew about the rate rigging, didn't move to stop it more swiftly. Host Scott Simon talks with Robert Smith, a correspondent for NPR's Planet Money.