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Most States Don't Require Guns To Be Locked Up

The latest mass school shooting in Texas rekindles a debate over gun storage laws, after it was revealed the alleged shooter used his father's guns. The National Rifle Association also favors tightening how owners handle guns, but actual laws and regulations are a mixed bag.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals has been the focus of a congressional investigation into high drug prices. .

Drug Company Jacks Up Cost Of Aid-In-Dying Medication

Seconal used to cost less than $200 a bottle. After Valeant Pharmaceuticals bought the medication, the cost rose to $3,000. Advocates for aid in dying say that's a burden for the terminally ill.

For One Palestinian Woman, There Will Not Be Peace

A Palestinian woman talks about going out on a limb years ago to work with left-wing Israelis on co-existence — an effort that ended in disappointment.

Siblings Sangeeta (from left), Sunil and Ravi Tripathi. Sunil went missing weeks before the Boston Marathon, and media outlets misidentified him as one of the bombing suspects.

How Social Media Smeared A Missing Student As A Terrorism Suspect

The documentary Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi explores what happened after a tweet misidentified a Brown University student as one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

Kansas Infant Mortality Rates Fall But Some Areas Continue To Struggle

Babies in midsize Kansas counties were more likely to die before their first birthdays than those in counties with larger or smaller populations,…

A Coming-Of Age Melodrama Is Steeped In Social Politics In 'The Mothers'

Brit Bennett's debut novel centers on three African-American friends dealing with their community's expectations and their own mistakes. Critic Maureen Corrigan says it is full of "mini epiphanies."

Volunteers stand Saturday near the wreckage of the destroyed vehicle, in which Mullah Akhtar Mansour was allegedly traveling in the Ahmed Wal area in Baluchistan province of Pakistan, near Afghanistan border.

U.S. Drone Strike Killed Taliban Leader, White House, Afghan Government Say

Mullah Akhtar Mansour was a divisive figure within the Taliban, and the Afghan government saw him as an obstacle to peace.

In 1955, British spy Kim Philby denied working for the Soviet Union. Eight years later, he defected to Moscow. He went on to speak to Stasi agents in East German, in an event that was captured on film.

Rare Film Emerges Of Double-Agent Kim Philby Speaking After Defection

"It is a very, very dirty story," the notorious spy says in an archived film reel from 1981 that the BBC recently unearthed from Germany's Stasi Records Agency.

Boko Haram Abductees Face Tough Return

Nigerian women and girls, forced into marriages with Boko Haram fighters, are being rejected upon returning home. Rachel Harvey of UNICEF talks about the stigma they face.

A confederacy of prison reform activists rallied at City Hall in New York City to demand that it close the long-controversial Rikers Island Corrections facility where, among others, Kalief Browder, died; critics maintain that the prison is unsafe and prolonged detention of inmates at the facility is a violation of Constitutional due process rights.

Young People Of Color Are Central To Debate Over 'Raising The Age'

Raising the age of adult responsibility for crime is a heated issue in New York, which tries 16-year-olds as adults — and where nine in 10 youth held at Rikers' Island jail are black or Latino.

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