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The Federal Commission on School Safety held its fourth and final listening session in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday. Representatives heard the community's thoughts on how to improve school safety.

At the Asian Art Museum, artworks recovered from two different shipwrecks become case studies for "how this got here."

A flood protection authority is suing to try to hold the oil and gas industries responsible for Louisiana's land crisis. But policymakers are trying to stop the lawsuit, saying it's bad for business.

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In early November, an emperor penguin washed up in Western Australia -- the furthest north the species has ever been recorded. After a period of rehabilitation, Gus is headed home to Antarctica.

The National Archives received a special gift today: the missing half of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. It was ripped from the pages of his Treasury secretary's correspondence and bought at auction by a collector who waited for Lincoln's bicentennial year to donate it.

Jane Ragsdale ran the Heart O' the Hills camp for girls in Kerr County. The camp was between sessions when the deluge hit. The only person killed there was Ragsdale.

The National Hurricane Center says the eye of Hurricane Idalia came ashore near Keaton Beach, Fla. Forecasters have increased the storm surge potential to as high as 16 feet in some areas.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports that the House and Senate are far apart on a strategy for completing the spending bills required before the new fiscal year begins on October 1st. There are divisions between House and Senate Republicans. The possibility is being raised of holding a lame duck session after the election.

As morning dawns in Japan, the country begins to survey the damage after a series of major new year's day earthquakes and subsequent tsunami warnings.