Nick and Chelsea Torres couldn’t believe their ears when they heard a heartbeat. An ultrasound three weeks earlier hadn’t been able to find one. At their eight-week appointment, they thought the doctor would say they’d miscarried their unborn child.

Chelsea was so overjoyed she didn’t notice a second heartbeat. The doctor revealed the image on the ultrasound was conjoined twins, a rare condition occurring once in every 200,000 live births.

Author and former-Muslim-turned-Christian-apologist Nabeel Qureshi died Saturday after a yearlong battle with stomach cancer. He was 34. Qureshi, a Pakistani-American, was a speaker with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, traveling the world to lecture and debate Muslim scholars. Qureshi wrote The New York Times best-seller Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, which chronicled his conversion.

KALISPELL, Mont.—A 19-year-old girl with a nose ring and hair pulled tight into a ponytail walks into a waiting room, carrying a car seat. A gaggle of women swarms her. She lifts a blue-eyed, fair-haired baby out of the car seat, and the oohs and aahs turn into laughter.

“Sorry we bombarded you,” one nurse says. “You saved her life,” the young mother replies, looking down at her baby. “So I owe it to you guys.”

Ninety-seven-year-old Alfred Marcus once stood 6-feet-1-inch tall, but now he bends over his walker as he makes his way to the elevator of his assisted living home, past a room full of residents playing Bingo. He recently moved from the tiny town of Prinsburg, Minn., just 15 miles away, where he spent his whole life, except the time he spent serving in World War II.

CANNON BALL, N.D.—Brightly colored tents, campers, and tepees span nearly a quarter-mile along the banks of the Cannonball River an hour south of Bismarck, N.D.. Flags from tribes across the country flap in the wind along the dirt road through the camp. Horses graze on prairie grasses, children run, and smoke from campfires wafts into the cloudless sky.

The wild horse symbolizes America’s pioneering spirit and the freedom of the Old West. Who doesn’t want to see wild horses running across the Western plains, free of human interference? Sadly, that picture has a downside. According to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), way too many horses live wild on federally owned lands.

Their numbers have grown for years, but 27-year BLM veteran Gus Warr said the horse problem has gotten worse: More than 67,000 wild horses now roam on federal land that can sustain only 25,000.

Peggy Hoogestraat farms with her husband Craig in Hartford, S.D., a town where neighbors watch out for each other and share bundles of homegrown sweet corn. In 2014, when land agents with Dakota Access showed up to survey for an oil pipeline route, Hoogestraat and 14 neighboring families banded together to fight it.