Days after the Dallas ambush, a devastating portrait emerges

The killing of five Dallas police officers capped a week of widely publicized violence across the country. Here is everything we know about the ambush, as well as the videos of police shootings in the days beforehand.

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The Full Picture In the aftermath of an ambush in Dallas, a devastating portrait emerges We know that 12 law enforcement officers were shot Thursday night, and that five of them died. We know their alleged sniper was killed himself, after an hours-long standoff with police. But this is not all we know. Here are the eyewitness accounts, the reactions across the political spectrum — and the victims who lost their lives. Everything NPR knows, in one place 'Totally Unacceptable' At a routine traffic stop, an 'absolutely appalling' result This week of horrific violence began in Baton Rouge, La., and suburban St. Paul, Minn., where separate police shootings of African-American men roiled the U.S. In Minnesota, Philando Castile's girlfriend caught the aftermath of the violence live in a video that soon went viral — and drew strong words from the state's governor. The video and the response What An Hour Of Emotion Shows At 54, Kim got a window into a world she never knew. All it took was an electromagnet She was an accomplished doctor with plenty of friends. But a few pulses from an electromagnet to her brain gave her a glimpse of all the emotions she'd never experienced — and made her reconsider her world. 'This is what life could be like!' The Magnitude Of Little Moments How do you raise brilliant children? We ask the scientists what works best So, your child asks you about the colors of traffic lights — what do you say? Little questions like these, and the ways you answer them, can have big effects down the road in that child's life. Two developmental psychologists break down the reasons why. A few everyday tips for parents Seismic Shifts You'd think fixing a faulty curb wouldn't be a big deal. But it's left geologists shaken A misaligned curb in Hayward, Calif., was a popular destination for geology field trips, because it had reflected the shift of a major fault in the San Francisco area. But a simple fix-up has made the curb, well, just another curb again. The loss of an 'icon'

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