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The Supreme Court will hear a case on gender-affirming care in the next term after a flurry of legislation. Lower courts have come to conflicting conclusions when these bans were challenged.
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From abortion restrictions in Kansas to the removal of so-called junk fees in California, here are some laws taking effect today in states.
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NBA legend Jerry West has died. His silhouette is the basis of the NBA logo and was an All-Star each of the 14 years he played for the Los Angeles Lakers. He left his mark as a team executive too.
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A state autopsy reports finds that a young man who was taken into custody after a foot chase with police last August died from a combination of environmental heat exposure and complications from multiple illegal substances detected in his system.
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Tennessee is among several Republican-led states suing the Biden administration over new protections against sex discrimination for LGBTQ students.
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Martin Luther King Jr. called civil rights pioneer, the Rev. James Lawson, the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence.
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A federal judge will need to settle a disagreement between the defense and prosecution over what evidence a jury can hear before the start of the trial.
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The small Memphis label Stax Records created soul hits by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, Rufus and Carla Thomas, and others. It's the subject of a new documentary on MAX.
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The Memphis soul label is the subject of the HBO Max documentary series, Stax: Soulsville U.S.A. We listen back to archival interviews with Stax musicians Steve Cropper, Booker T. and Isaac Hayes.
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A Shelby County judge temporarily called off a public auction of Graceland that was advertised to take place Thursday in response to a lawsuit accusing the sellers of fraud.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jamila Wignot, the filmmaker behind a new documentary series called Stax: Soulsville USA, about the story of the legendary record label.
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Riley Keough, Elvis' granddaughter and sole heir, says in a lawsuit that the company advertising a foreclosure sale of his Graceland property is using fraudulent documents — and may not exist at all.