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In a speech Tuesday, Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, said Oregon House Bill 2020 does not have enough votes to pass.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam about his call for a special legislative session to take up gun control bills after last week's deadly shooting in Virginia Beach.

April Dembosky is the health reporter for The California Report and KQED News. She covers health policy and public health, and has reported extensively on the economics of health care, the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act in California, mental health and end-of-life issues. Her work is regularly rebroadcast on NPR and has been recognized with awards from the Society for Professional Journalists (for sports reporting), and the Association of Health Care Journalists (for a story about pediatric hospice). Her hour-long radio documentary about home funeralswon the Best New Artist award from the Third Coast International Audio Festival in 2009. April occasionally moonlights on the arts beat, covering music and dance. Her story about the first symphony orchestra at Burning Man won the award for Best Use of Sound from the Public Radio News Directors Inc. Before joining KQED in 2013, April covered technology and Silicon Valley for The Financial Times, and freelanced for Marketplace and The New York Times. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Smith College.

North Carolina legislators failed to repeal the state's contentious bathroom law on Wednesday during a special session called by Gov. Pat McCrory.

The measure would require transgender people to use public bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex rather than their gender identity in public schools, universities and government buildings.

Democrats in the Minnesota House plan to boycott the state Capitol Tuesday by walking out of the first day of the legislative session. This after Republicans say they hold political control.

Leaders from around the world join President Bush and President Jacques Chirac in France to commemorate the 60th anniversary of D-Day. World War II veterans also marked the day at services at the American cemetery in Normandy. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Among Katrina's victims was Shearwater, an art and pottery complex. The belongings of the Anderson family, known for the late watercolor painter Walter Inglis Anderson, were badly damaged.

Gun safety advocates have announced plans to put a safe storage law to the voters. But the group hopes it won’t come to that.

Run your finger across the song titles and liner notes of Lee Fields' latest album and you might guess Fields is a singer invested in spreading love through soulful music.