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  • The attorney general says work is going well in redacting the special counsel's report about the Russian interference in the 2016 election — and DOJ has at least one other report coming too.
  • By Chad LampeMurray, KY – Relatives of the two missing young Mayfield duck hunters are keeping up a lakeside vigil as the search continues for the pair.…
  • A family in Ohio County got an unexpected visitor to its deer feeder.The family caught a black bear on camera eating from the feeder. Wildlife officials…
  • Latino students make up the largest minority group of America's school-age population -- and there's broad consensus that public schools are not doing a good job of meeting their needs. In the third report of a five-part series on educating Latinos, Jessica Jones of member station WUNC reports on the shortage of qualified bilingual education teachers. Browse online resources about the issues, and learn about each of the reports in this series.
  • There are fewer than 80 Florida grasshopper sparrows left in the wild. As researchers release more into the wild, there's a fight brewing about whether that's the best plan to save them.
  • Forest elephants in central Africa are being slaughtered in record numbers. The most comprehensive study ever, done over a decade, shows that poaching — mostly for the Asian market for ivory — has put the forest elephant on the brink of extinction. Poaching has overcome laws and treaties to protect the species. The U.S. government and wildlife groups are struggling to slow the killing. A meeting in March of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species will focus on solutions. Audie Cornish talks to Christopher Joyce.
  • NPR's Barbara Bradley reports today, a federal appeals court released the final report of Independent Counsel Robert Ray on the firings of White House travel office employees in 1993. As Ray had announced in a preliminary report, he finds that Hillary Rodham Clinton gave investigators factually inaccurate statements as to her involvement with the firings. But he also says she may not have known they were false because she may not have known the influence she had with officials who made the firing decision.
  • A special congressional committee today released its long-awaited report on intelligence failures prior to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. The committee faulted the FBI, the CIA and other governmental agencies for organizational problems that kept them from detecting the terrorist plot, according to the report. The bipartisan committee issued 19 recommendations for improving the nation's intelligence services, but did not single out individuals for blame. NPR's Larry Abramson reports.
  • By Rose Krzton-PressonMurray, KY – A new Kentucky school health report finds most school districts spend less than one percent of their budgets on school…
  • On Friday, thousands of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi are protesting the military coup, in demonstrations that have reportedly turned violent.
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