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House Speaker Tina Kotek has agreed to explore giving businesses, schools and others protection from lawsuits after most of her chamber signaled support.

Steve Carell stars as a therapist who is abducted by a murderer. By the time The Patient is over, nearly everyone in this drama series reflects upon past actions and decisions — or dies trying.

The Senate is braced for a showdown next week, when the Democrats plan to push through a nearly $900 billion economic stimulus package. The House passed a slightly smaller measure Wednesday. Not a single Republican voted for the plan, which was after President Obama lobbied GOP lawmakers for a bipartisan bill. The question now is how many Senate Republicans will heed his call?

Former President Donald J. Trump did a question and answer session at the 2024 National Association of Black Journalists conference this week.

President Trump has revved up his attacks on the special counsel's probe as a "rigged witch hunt." The team has thus far secured indictments or guilty pleas of 32 individuals and 3 Russian companies.

Texas Republican Tom Oliverson about what's next in the redistricting fight that is going down in the Lone Star state.

Many majority-Black legislative districts could be redrawn after a landmark Supreme Court Case. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Mississippi State Rep. Kabir Karriem about the impacts in his state.

This story originally appeared in bioGraphic, an online magazine about nature and sustainability powered by the California Academy of Sciences. Snow geese erupt against a blue sky trimmed with fresh, white clouds. The air is so clear you can see for miles, east to the distant peaks of the Sierra Nevada and west to the gentle … Continue reading Farmers Give Beleaguered Salmon a Boost by Flooding Fields →

California’s Chinook salmon have been losing habitat to agriculture for decades. Now, they’re getting a much-needed boost from strategically flooded fields.

Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died from complications from cancer. Her death will set in motion what promises to be a tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her.