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This undated photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmate Ledell Lee, who was executed last week. It was the first execution Arkansas carried out in 12 years.

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Legal Issues Remain After Arkansas Executions

5:54am April 27, 2017

by Sarah Whites-Koditschek

Arkansas' flurry of executions this month has raised questions about the pace and process. But after inmates are put to death, what happens to the legal questions that were raised just before?

Suing To Sell Baked Goods

5:14am April 27, 2017

In Wisconsin, you can't sell cookies or brownies without a license. Now three Wisconsin women are suing. Wisconsin senators have debated bills to allow baked goods sales, but the bills have died.

Samirah Franklin, 19, is lead organizer of the Baltimore Youth Organizing Project. She lives in West Baltimore, near where the violence and looting broke out after Freddie Gray's funeral two years ago.

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2 Years After Unrest, Baltimore's Youth Are 'Still Fighting For The Basics'

5:00am April 27, 2017

by Pam Fessler

After unrest in Baltimore two years ago brought national attention and some help to the city's problems, activists say young people in the city's poorest neighborhoods still need more help.

Zola Cervantes (center) and her brother, Tines, travel across the border regularly to visit their father, Gilbert, in Mexico.

With A Deported Father, California Teen Lives Life Between Borders

8:18pm April 26, 2017

by Zola Cervantes

Zola Cervantes knows firsthand the impact deportation can have on a family. The 17-year-old has been traveling across the border to see her father in Mexico, since he was deported six years ago.

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San Francisco City Attorney On Sanctuary City Ruling: 'We Should All Feel Vindicated'

7:54pm April 26, 2017

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with San Francisco's city attorney, Dennis Herrera, about a federal judge's decision last night to block President Trump's attempt to withhold funding from sanctuary cities.

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Two Years After Freddie Gray's Death, What Is The State Of Baltimore's Youth?

7:54pm April 26, 2017

by Pam Fessler

The city of Baltimore erupted in violence after the death of Freddie Gray, two years ago. The riots brought national attention to many of the city's problems, including a lack of opportunity for its young people. Money poured in to help fix that, but people say Baltimore's youth still need a great deal of help.

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Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck addresses police recruits at their graduation ceremony on July 8, 2016 in Los Angeles.

'It's Not Your Grandfather's LAPD' — And That's A Good Thing

5:44pm April 26, 2017

by Karen Grigsby Bates

"It was bad for the city. It was bad for business. You can't have a city going up twice in thirty years in flames because of its police department."

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Nordstrom Makes Down-To-Earth Appeal To High-End Market With $425 Fake Mud Jeans

5:11pm April 26, 2017

A pair of $425 men's jeans is getting heat online for it's Americana feel with "crackled, caked-on muddy coating." Washington Post fashion critic Robin Givhan explains that these pants are a part of the fashion industry's desire to be authentic and edgy.

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North Carolina Republicans' Latest Power Grab: State Judicial Appointments

4:57pm April 26, 2017

The Republicans who control North Carolina's legislature are attempting to strip the state's Democratic governor of more powers, this time over who has the power to make appointments to the state's courts.

The diary that John F. Kennedy wrote during the summer of 1945, in between his military service and first campaign for Congress, when he worked as a journalist for Hearst Newspapers.

Now You Can Own JFK's Personal Reflections On History, For A Hefty Price

4:49pm April 26, 2017

by Todd Bookman

As a young journalist seven decades ago, John F. Kennedy witnessed a bombed-out Berlin and Adolf Hitler's bunker. Bidding on his diary starts Wednesday and is expected to top $200,000 Wednesday.