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The three-masted 200-foot SSV Oliver Hazard Perry was departing a Rhode Island festival in Narragansett Bay when it hit "multiple" boats and ran aground, the Coast Guard says.

Susan Stamberg marks Fathers Day by dusting off 78 rpm home recordings made in 1940 and later by her father. He's been dead three decades. She never had the heart to listen before, feeling his loss was still too near to deal with.

Steve Inskeep talks with two mothers of sons who died in Iraq. The number of U.S. troops killed there has reached 2,000 since March of 2003. Gena Courtney and Nan Byrd talk of the experience their families have been through dealing with the loss of their loved ones.

Daniel Mendelsohn's best-selling memoir The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million tells the story of his grandfather's brother, who stayed in his Ukrainian town when his siblings left for America, and later died in the Holocaust. The book has just come out in paperback.

Nancy Hale won multiple literary prizes, and her writing shaped the early identity of The New Yorker. Now, she's mostly forgotten, but that may change with the release of a new edition of her work.

The House majority leader initially told House Democrats the chamber would convene next week. A bipartisan task force is looking at options for remote voting and committee work.

Frontman Ari Picker discusses his mother's death and the group's second album, A Church That Fits Our Needs, dedicated to her life and legacy.

With Butte County authorities continuing to identify victims, here's a list of 75 people whom officials or relatives say died in the blaze.

Republicans are finding new ways to register their displeasure with the year-long closure of the statehouse, sometimes with disruptive results.

2019 saw one of the most dramatic and impactful legislative sessions anyone in the Capitol can recall — one marked by stark extremes.