Judy Woodruff:

The riots erupted after months of protests against a citizenship law that excludes Muslim refugees.

Back in this country, police in Milwaukee worked to piece together the motive behind Wednesday's carnage at the Molson Coors Brewing Company. Investigators say a 51-year-old employee at the site shot and killed five co-workers, and then killed himself. It's not yet clear if the gunman knew his victims.

Federal officials have ordered the University of Southern California today to make major changes in handling complaints of sexual abuse. The U.S. Education Department found that USC failed for years to address allegations by hundreds of women against a former campus gynecologist.

Dr. George Tyndall is now facing criminal charges of sexual abuse.

Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for a scam involving her children's books. The veteran Democrat earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent sales of the books. She pled guilty to conspiracy and tax evasion.

And new numbers show that more and more people in the U.S. are getting heavier and heavier. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 42 percent of Americans are obese. That's a 40 percent increase over the last 20 years. Nearly 10 percent are severely obese, 10 times more than 50 years ago.