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A mock explosion, fire and oil spill in the Houston Ship Channel -- a lifeline for the nation's busy energy industry -- provided a test this week for federal, state and local agencies and their ability to work together in the event of a terrorist attack.

Jeff Sessions says the Justice Department won't take the same permissive line toward state marijuana laws, but the implications for states, users and vendors aren't clear.

Alaska has long ignored warning signs of a budget crisis. Now, it has no money to fix something that is posing serious health and safety risks to students and staff: crumbling rural schools.

After Warren quoted Coretta Scott King and Sen. Edward Kennedy, Republicans invoked a Senate rule that silences a member accused of impugning the integrity of a colleague.

Today in Tallahassee most of the presidential election action has been in courtrooms, but there have also been people in the streets. Labor unions, the National Organization for Women and other groups organized a rally to support Vice President Al Gore's efforts to overturn the certified results in Florida. Also in town today were many members of the state legislature, which had been thought likely to hold an emergency session this week. The session has yet to be called, however, as Republican legislative leaders watch the progress of the election issues in court. NPR's Adam Hochberg reports.

In its first hearing, a legislative committee addressing the pandemic heard a dizzying litany of challenges the state faces.

Del. Don Scott, a rising star among Virginia Democrats with a unique personal story, was voted in as speaker of the Virginia Statehouse.

From family memorials to jam sessions to every show at the Grand Ole Opry, the familiar singalong helps people feel connected to those who have died — whether legendary musicians or loved ones.

August Wilson's award-winning play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, about a recording session in 1927 Chicago, comes to the screen with Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in his final role.

A year has passed since the Trump administration's family separation policy was rescinded. It sparked a national outcry and changed the immigration debate in America.