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Commentator Sam Fulwood says the fight in Prince George's County, Maryland over inviting Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas to speak to an eighth-grade class is a public spectacle of official cowardice, racial politics and divisive posturing. He claims it is a sad example of how race is discussed and used in this country.

Noah Adams talks to NPR's Andy Bowers in Tallahassee about today's court hearing concerning absentee ballots in Seminole County. Democratic voters have filed a lawsuit claiming Republicans illegally tampered with ballot applications from absentee voters. The lawsuit is aimed at getting all of the absentee ballots in question -- and thus George W. Bush's narrow lead in Florida -- thrown out.

In a victory for the Bush legal team, Florida circuit court justices today rejected legal efforts to have thousands of absentee ballots in Seminole and Martin counties thrown out. The plaintiffs had argued that applications for those absentee ballots had been illegally adjusted by Republican party operatives. Justices ruled that any irregularities with the applications did not misrepresent the intentions of the voters themselves.

Essex County, N.J., officials said that 14-year-old JaShyah Moore was spotted in Harlem and that it "appears she was a runaway." Prosecutors charged her mother with child endangerment.

Alisha Morris, a Kansas theater teacher, created a database of COVID-19 cases in schools. Now maintained by the National Education Association, it shares data that some schools prefer to keep quiet.

Illinois is once again in the spotlight as advocates seek to revive efforts to pass an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution after it narrowly…

Sandeep Dhaliwal emerged as a symbol of religious diversity in law enforcement as the first Sikh to become a sheriff's deputy in Harris County. "He was a unifying symbol," a city official said.

A warrant for an arrest was discovered last week by searchers inside a file folder that had been placed in a box, said Leflore County Circuit Clerk Elmus Stockstill.

In a preview of debates that could start occurring the country, South Dakota voters go to the polls to possibly repeal the law some say weakens local governments in regulating pipelines.

Many pregnant women aren't getting adequate health care, so they aren't being tested for syphilis. It can kill or seriously disable babies. The 458 cases last year could have been prevented.