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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.

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.

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.

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.

Kenneth McKee was charged with 17 federal counts of criminal negligence, misconduct and inattention to duty. U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison said, "Each represents a life that was lost."

Author Jesmyn Ward lost her brother in a car wreck — and several friends in quick succession after that — all young black men, all dead before the age of 30. She tells their stories, and her own, in a wrenching new memoir, Men We Reaped.