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Highlighting the difficulties of being a working mom, Democratic Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks of Oakland had to bring her 4-week-old daughter to the midnight end of the legislative session.

World music DJ Betto Arcos joins host Arun Rath with a stack of records by his favorite new California musicians — all with global influences.

An oil spill in Southern California has authorities scrambling. A pipeline connected of an offshore oil platform released more than 3,000 barrels of crude into the ocean near Orange County.

As the Senate debated the Iraq war in a rare around-the-clock session, the rarity of the all-night session is striking. And the debate was a sober one, showing increasing discontent with the war.

The worst of Hurricane Ivan seems to be over for residents of Mobile, Ala., where the storm made landfall early Thursday morning. Several storm-related deaths and heavy damage are reported in the Florida Panhandle, which is now bearing the brunt of the storm. Hear NPR's Adam Hochberg.

William Donelson came back to New Bern, N.C., to find his one-story brick apartment condemned. The town was hit by a nearly 10-foot storm surge from Hurricane Florence.

Sessions said a special counsel is reserved for extraordinary circumstances, and argues that the GOP allegations do not rise to that level. Instead, Sessions has assigned the U.S. attorney for Utah.

On January 4, the Trump Administration announced its plan to open nearly all federal waters to offshore oil exploration and drilling. It would be the…

Washington state leaders are criticizing a letter from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the state’s regulation of recreational and medical marijuana.

A photographer uses watercolors sensitized to light to make ethereal images of dying trees on the Chesapeake and Delaware bays. As sea levels rise, these haunting sights will only continue to grow.