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Several state legislatures are moving to amend voting laws after a controversial Supreme Court decision limited enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. Host Michel Martin gets an overview of the future of voting rights across the states.

The agreement, which comes two months after a factory collapse that killed more than 1,000 workers, brings together several European retailers and labor unions. U.S. companies like Walmart and Gap are not part of the deal.

Our established ways of living as consumptive, independent residents of cities and towns is very new in the big picture of world history. Just 100 years…

NPR and KERA spent Independence Week drilling deep into the Lone Star state, and the demographic revolution that's reshaping it, with the series Texas…

More than 1700 people lined up this morning to speak before the Senate Health and Human Services committee on a bill that would add new abortion…

Nina Totenberg discusses an error she made in a recent story about the Supreme Court term.

On July 10, FX adds another dark serialized drama to an already rich cable crop: The Bridge,starring Diane Kruger. Like The Killing,it's based on a Scandinavian television series.

In the Showtime series, Schreiber plays a Hollywood fixer with some personal problems of his own. While TV is newish territory for Schreiber, playing a man plagued by inner demons is not. He talks with Dave Davies about acting the heavy — and how his face has shaped his career.

Governor Rick Perry says it's time to pass on the mantle of leadership and he will not seek reelection next year. Perry told an audience in San Antonio he…

Syrian refugees have been pouring into Jordan since the war broke out. But over the past month, more Syrian refugees went back than came to Jordan. The returnees cite rough conditions in the Jordanian camps and recent rebel advances.