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Forty years ago, Congress decided that existing anti-discrimination laws were not enough to overcome racism in the voting process. In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. The law helped to tumble the segregationist status quo that kept black voters from the polls.

"We do believe Crimo pre-planned this attack for several weeks," Sgt. Christopher Covelli says.

Southern-born singer-songwriter Chan Marshall is no stranger to covers. Under the Cat Power moniker, Marshall has released eight albums, two of them collections in which she reworks the classics. The latest is Jukebox. Hear an interview and performance from WXPN.

How Education Department cuts will impact lower-income and rural schools, hearing to be held on Venezuelan deportations, NTSB says Maryland officials did not assess Key Bridge risks before collapse.

Jordan Willey and Tracey Danka both voted for Trump.

The Florida Panthers crushed the Edmonton Oilers in game six of the Stanley Cup Final on Tuesday night.

The data, which was delayed from October by the government shutdown, comes as the economy takes center stage for voters and the Trump administration.

The victory comes after a tough year for climate priorities in New York.

A new study finds black students are half as likely as white students to be assigned to a gifted program. Unless their teacher looks like them.

Wisdom, a Laysan albatross that researchers first tagged in 1956, has hatched what could be her 40th chick, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says.