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Bipartisan Senate Banking Bill Would Scale Back Some Dodd-Frank Regulations

7:43pm March 08, 2018

by Kelsey Snell

The Senate is working on a rare bipartisan banking bill that would scale back parts of the Dodd-Frank regulations for smaller banks. But the bill has exposed divisions among Democrats over protecting former President Obama's legacy.

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Virginia Del. Kathy Tran often brings her baby to work and has breastfed on the House floor in Richmond.

Statehouses Have A Ways To Go To Accommodate New Moms

7:43pm March 08, 2018

by Sarah McCammon

In Virginia, a new class of state lawmakers includes mothers of young children. The delegates are finding a workplace not as accommodating as they would like.

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Current federal law only requires background checks for gun purchases from licensed gun dealers, but gun control advocates want to extend the law to include private gun sales, too.

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A Backgrounder on Background Checks

7:32pm March 08, 2018

by Adrienne St. Clair

The shooting in South Florida has ignited the national debate about how to fix, and whether to expand, the gun sales background check system. But what are background checks and how do they work?

A bill passed by Florida legislators seeks to make daylight saving time year-round.

Sunshine Daydream: Florida Bill Would Make Daylight Saving Time Year-Round

6:36pm March 08, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

This weekend, most people in the U.S. will reset their clocks and spring forward. In Florida, there's a push to never fall back.

The head of the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., says she plans to sue if the governor signs the bill into law. This is the only clinic in Mississippi that performs abortions.

Mississippi Legislature Approves Bill Banning Abortions After 15 Weeks

6:21pm March 08, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

The measure, which is poised to become law once signed by the governor, allows for exceptions only in a "medical emergency and in cases of severe fetal abnormality."

Three main theories about Amelia Earhart's disappearance — arguably the most enduring aviation mystery in history — have been bandied about over the years.

New Research Claims Bones Found 80 Years Ago On Pacific Atoll Likely Amelia Earhart's

5:40pm March 08, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Richard Jantz, a forensics expert at the University of Tennessee, reanalyzed measurements from the bones. He says they are female and the right size to be Earhart's. But questions linger.

In December, New York tax department investigators seized 757 liters of untaxed liquor brought into the state in this vehicle.

Why Are New Hampshire's Tax-Free Liquor Stores Selling So Much Hennessy?

5:34pm March 08, 2018

by Todd Bookman

So much cognac is being sold that one official is asking the state attorney general to investigate whether the Liquor Commission is turning a blind eye to bootlegging and money-laundering activities.

Why 1 U.S. Snowboarder Competing In His First Paralympics Is Helping His Competition

5:22pm March 08, 2018

by Tom Goldman

Mike Schultz lost his leg in a snowmobile race accident in 2008. Since then, he created a successful business making prosthetic legs and learned to snowboard so well that he's about to compete in the 2018 Winter Paralympics.

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Mattel Introduces 17 'Shero' Barbies To Celebrate International Women's Day

5:22pm March 08, 2018

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Aisha Sultan about the new Barbie dolls Mattel made to mark International Women's Day. The special series celebrates famous women including NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and artist Frida Kahlo.

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What Research Says About Video Games And Violence In Children

5:06pm March 08, 2018

President Trump held a roundtable at the White House Thursday to discuss violent video games and how they relate to school shootings. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Douglas Gentile, psychology professor at Iowa State University, about what research tells us about video games and violence in children.

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