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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation today released its first-ever study on the use of deadly force by the state’s law enforcement agencies while in the…

Jurors report they are split 6-6 in the murder trial of former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen. The 80-year-old defendant is accused of organizing the killing of three voting rights volunteers in Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964. It was one of the civil rights era's most notorious crimes.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said the state saw its largest Monday COVID-19 case increase.Beshear addressed the commonwealth from the Governor’s Mansion…

THIS POST WILL BE UPDATED:Richmond Hall at Murray State University has suffered extensive damage from an explosion that shook buildings many miles away.…

Richard Clarke, a former counterterrorism adviser to President Bush who has been critical of the Bush administration's policies on terrorism and Iraq, says the Sept. 11 commission's report does not adequately address what can be done to prevent terrorist attacks. Hear Clarke and NPR's Scott Simon.

A new report from Pew Hispanic Center this week shows nearly three of 10 new jobs in the United States are going to immigrants -- but despite the new job creation, wages for both Latinos and non-Hispanics are flat. NPR's Liane Hansen speaks with Roberto Suro, director of the Pew Hispanic Center.

Two west Tennessee men have been sentenced for killing a bear out of season in Colorado and throwing the carcass off a cliff. Colorado Parks and Wildlife…

The search for wildlife in the mountainous wilderness of northern Myanmar led scientist Alan Rabinowitz to a personal discovery. Hear his conversation with NPR's Alex Chadwick. (8:10) ( Alan Rabinowitz's book, Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discovery in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness is published by Island Press; ISBN: 1559

Writer RICHARD FORD. His book "Independence Day" (Knopf) has just won a Pulitzer Prize, as well as a National Book Critics Circle Award. It's the sequel to FORD's "The Sportswriter" FORD is also the author of "Wildlife," "The Ultimate Good Luck," "A Piece of My Heart," and "Rock Springs." (REBROADCAST from 6

A draft report released Friday warns that climate change could threaten the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the decades to come. The international panel of scientists predicts drought and drying in many regions, including the American West.