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They are working to contact those who had been in close proximity to the president, the first lady and others who traveled with him in recent days to get tested.

UPDATED 11:20 a.m. | Authorities have identified the 53-year-old man who's been charged with murder in connection with a triple homicide Christmas Day in…

Kathryn Hodges went skydiving in Snohomish County, Wash. Before her leap, King-5 News reports she asked her son if it was going to be a record. The previous Guinness World Record holder was 100.

Last year, when Minnesota stopped paying state benefits to single, unemployed men to help them return to work, Minneapolis officials knew some of them would end up homeless as a result. But its shelters had no room, so the county opened a spartan place called a "Secure Waiting Area" to handle the new population of homeless. Now, that too, is full...and local charities are bracing for another wave, now that federal disability benefits to people addicted to drugs and alcohol ended on January 1st of this year. Minnesota Public Radio's John Biewen (BEE-wen) reports.

As a young teacher, Huston Diehl's first class was a group of fourth-graders in rural Virginia. It was 1970, in the waning days of officially-sanctioned segregation. Diehl recalls her experiences in a new book, Dream Not of Other Worlds.

Noah talks with Shawn Riley, the administrator of C.O.A.S.T....the Centralized Officer-Assistance System Terminal based in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Riley talks about his idea to bring a version of the local "Chester County's Most Wanted" cable television program into local movie theaters to help find people with outstanding arrest warrants.

While much of the world watched the case in the Florida State Supreme Court today, another trial was coming to a conclusion not far away in downtown Tallahassee. In the Leon County Circuit Courthouse, lawyers argued over the fate of about 10-thousand absentee ballots cast in Martin County. Most of them were cast for George W. Bush. The judge in the case promised a ruling tomorrow. NPR's Phillip Davis reports from Tallahassee.

A challenge to the counting of absentee ballots in Florida's Seminole County has at least the potential to wipe out thousands of votes that have already been included in the state's certified count. Democrats say those absentee ballots were obtained only after Republican volunteers were allowed to complete applications for them, applications that otherwise would not have qualified. Today, that case was relocated from Seminole County to Tallahassee, the state capital. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.

Illinois lawmakers have approved a $600 million short-term funding infusion for higher education institutions that have been struggling financially due to…

Micron Technology announces a $15 billion manufacturing plant for Boise, the largest private investment ever in Idaho. CHIPS Act incentives and state help are credited for thousands of new jobs.