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A Democratic senator Wednesday filed a bill that seeks to repeal a decades-old prohibition on cities and counties passing gun restrictions that are...

The law aimed at banning Muslim burqas forbids any kind of clothing that fully covers the face. It also limits the use of ski masks and surgical masks. A man in a shark suit was issued a citation.

We meet a family divided by immigration laws. Four kids, all U.S. citizens with a mother without papers who, after trying to get legal status the "right way," was forced to wait 10 years in Mexico.

A federal appeals court upholds Oregon's law allowing physician-assisted suicide. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's attempt to block the law exceeded his federal authority. The court also said Ashcroft's directive against the measure, which he issued in late 2001, was unenforceable. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and Oregon Public Broadcasting's Colin Fogarty.

In Virginia, it is illegal to be an unmarried couple in the same home. Since the 1870s, the state has banned "lewd and lascivious cohabitation." Now a state Senate committee has approved a measure to repeal that law.

Planned Parenthood is challenging a wide-ranging set of new abortion restrictions passed by state lawmakers earlier this year. The case heads to federal...

President Bush asked Congress to hark back to one of the triumphs of his first term: passage of the No Child Left Behind Law in 2002. He asked Congress to reauthorize the law.

Filial Piety is the ancient Chinese ethic of young people showing care and respect to their parents and older relatives. Starting this summer if kids don't pay enough attention to their folks, mom and dad can sue. Bloomberg News reports this is part of a broader law requiring kids to care for the elderly.

A law as broad and complex as the Affordable Care Act invites both criticism and praise. Here's a look at some of the claims made on the presidential campaign trail.

A modest new documentary from the West African nation of Cameroon has been getting rave reviews at some of the world's most prestigious film festivals. Sisters In Law follows the saga of two female attorneys taking on entrenched attitudes to find justice for women.