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Second Democrat In 13th District Race Backs Single-Payer Health Care, Green New Deal

The race for the 13th Congressional District is heating up.Republican incumbent Rep. Rodney Davis was already facing 2020 competition from Democrat Betsy…

Mother Targets DCFS Reform With New Group

When Ann Simmons last saw her daughter Rica Rountree alive on April 20, 2018, with obvious signs of abuse, she knew she had to change her life for the…

Emergency crews work on the scene where a train hit a charter bus in Biloxi, Miss., Tuesday. The National Transportation Safety Board says the freight train was traveling about 19 mph at the time of the crash.

Charter Bus Was Stuck On Tracks When Freight Train Hit It, Witnesses In Biloxi Say

"Since 1976 there have been 16 vehicle-train collisions at this grade crossing prior to Tuesday's accident," the National Transportation Safety Board says.

GLT's The Leadoff - Monday 6/24/19

It's what you need to know to start your day for Monday, June 24, 2019. Our Leadoff story is about the Bloomington City Council potentially putting up…

Red Lake Reservation is rare because the tribal nation owns all of its land

NPR's history podcast Throughline looks at how the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota avoided the fate of most U.S. reservations. The Red Lake Band of Chippewa still owns all the reservation land.

California's new digital privacy law essentially requires a warrant before any business turns over any of its clients' metadata or digital communications to the government.

California Approves A Sweeping Digital Privacy Law

The bill was signed into law on Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown. The law requires a warrant before any business turns over clients' metadata or digital communications to the government.

Josh Dini and Gary McKinney protest a planned lithium mine outside a federal appeals court in California in June.

Tribes object. But a federal ruling approves construction of the largest lithium mine

A federal appeals court on Monday denied a last-ditch effort by tribes to block construction of what's likely to be the largest lithium mine in North America on federal land in Nevada.

Senior Airman Yazmine Nanasca with a control tower crew at Altus Air Force Base guide a C-17 cargo plane a KC-135 tanker as it taxis to the runway for a day-long training mission in southwestern Oklahoma.

New Wind Farms Cause Friction In The Sky Over Military Flight Routes

As wind farms expand across the country some are facing new opposition. Military bases complain the tall turbines interfere with their training flights and safety of their pilots.

When Will The EV Revolution Arrive? When More EV Models Do

The shift from gas-powered to electric vehicles will accelerate in the next five years as the number of available EV models grows rapidly—including more…

One Reporter Goes Home To California And Hears Repeatedly That 'Richmond Is Changing'

NPR reporters have been going home to see how their hometowns have changed. NPR's Richard Gonzales returns to Richmond, Calif., a blue collar city east of San Francisco seeing an exodus of African-Americans and the emergence of a new Latino community.

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