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What Happens When A High School Student Repeatedly Says Extremist Things At School

After the August shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, authorities started arresting people they suspected of planning more violence. NPR's Embedded podcast took a look at one of these arrests.

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Kelly McEvers is a two-time Peabody Award-winning journalist and former host of NPR's flagship newsmagazine, All Things Considered. She spent much of her career as an international correspondent, reporting from Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. She is the creator and host of the acclaimed Embedded podcast, a documentary show that goes to hard places to make sense of the news. She began her career as a newspaper reporter in Chicago.
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