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NPR Special Coverage: Trump says the shooting Sunday night was an "act of pure evil." More than 50 people were killed when a shooter opened fire. Hospitals are jammed with injured concert-goers.

The scientists honored with a Nobel Prize in medicine helped discover that every cell in the body has its own clock. When we ignore those clocks, we increase the risk of weight gain and diabetes.

Eyewitness Pam Schneider from Bismarck, N.D., thought she heard fireworks when the shooting began in Las Vegas. It was a strange sound, she says, and then she realized it was gunfire.

Also: Puerto Rico struggles to secure clean water and food; the ex-CEO of Equifax apologizes for the massive security breach; and officials in Catalonia say an independence referendum is approved.

The New Yorker cartoonist channels her affection for the city into a new tongue-in-cheek guidebook, Going Into Town. "It's just fun," Chast says of New York. "Everything seems to suggest stories."

A few years ago, scholar Daniel Mendelsohn's dad made an unusual request: He wanted to take his son's seminar on Homer's Odyssey. Mendelsohn looks back on that experience in his new memoir.

Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen on how modern Russia took a wrong turn on the road to democracy and its march, now, to totalitarianism.

A gunman opened fire on concertgoers in Las Vegas Sunday night, making it the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history, according to police.

Another mass shooting in America is reviving a well-worn debate over the nation's gun laws. The Republican majorities in Congress have been trying to ease gun restrictions.

Sunrise Hospital was one of the main hospitals that received victims of Sunday's shooting in Las Vegas. Dr. Jeffrey Murawsky, the hospital's chief medical officer, talks to NPR's Kelly McEvers.