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Kansas Republican leaders couldn't rally enough support this fall for a special session on redistricting. It's just one example of lawmakers pushing back on a new round of partisan gerrymandering.

Florida state Sen. Shevrin Jones, a Democrat, says the proposed course "wasn't indoctrination, it wasn't ideology, it was facts." He fears blocking it will harm students in Florida and beyond.

As we head into summer, a lifeguard shortage is affecting public pools throughout the country.

It's not immediately clear why the 121-foot-high homage to Mao Zedong in central China was brought down, but widespread ridicule might have had something to do with it.

A coroner's preliminary report says the men died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Investigators with the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration are still determining what happened inside the Revenue Virginius mine.

The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad in December at Fort Hood, where he killed 13 people in 2009. The announcement came days after a botched lethal injection in Tennessee.

At least a dozen figure skaters, coaches and their family members were on the plane that crashed near Washington, D.C., including two teenage competitors and a Russian husband-and-wife coaching duo.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Sheriff Chris Davis of Humphreys County, Tenn., about the flash flooding that ravaged parts of the state over the weekend. Nearly two dozen people died.

Terrill Thomas died in 2016, seven days after prison employees shut off the flow of water to his cell. The payment was made by Milwaukee County and a medical care contractor.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Emma Brown, an education reporter for The Washington Post, about the federal court judge's ruling on Monday allowing a city to leave an Alabama school district under desegregation orders. The judge said, even though she believes the motivation is racial, she will allow it to separate under certain conditions.