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Chief U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled Wednesday that Texas officials may not implement Senate Bill 4, a controversial measure designed to crack down on sanctuary cities in that state.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Phil Klotzbach, a research scientist at Colorado State University, about the science of hurricanes and what makes Hurricane Irma so unusual.

Texas public health officials are looking ahead to meeting health needs in the days and weeks ahead, including getting prescriptions to people displaced to shelters.

NPR examined President Trump's tweets this summer to get a sense of how he talks about African-Americans. This is what we found.

Steve Inskeep talks to Justin Tinsley of the website The Undefeated about Nike selecting the ex-quarterback as one of the faces of its "Just Do It" campaign, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary.

Armed men raided a hotel in the capital city of Juba in 2016. A military court handed them prison sentences and ordered the government to pay rape victims a sum that their lawyer called "an insult."

In the new North American trade deal, Canada agreed to end its Class 7 milk price — a system that lowered the price of some Canadian dairy products, undercutting American producers. But dairy policy analysts say the new trade agreement won't significantly expand export opportunities.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has spent the past few days traveling in East Asia. He left Beijing on Monday after visiting Japan, North and South Korea, and China.

In response to the transformation of views on sexual harassment, New York state and New York City passed laws requiring training of all workers. Now, business owners are scrambling to comply.

Mandatory evacuations are in effect for hundreds of thousands of people living near the coast on Florida's panhandle as Hurricane Michael is expected to make landfall on Wednesday.