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  • Texas Election 2014: Election Brackets
    It’s the 2014 Texas Election version of March Madness brackets. The brackets will take you from candidate filings, to March primaries, May runoffs, and…
  • What Climate Looks Like in the Texas Panhandle
    NASA provides a bird’s eye view that shows how climate change and increased population has changed some geographic features in Texas. State Impact Texas…
  • Jimmy Greene holds a picture of his daughter, Ana, as he kisses his wife Nelba Márquez-Greene, at a January news conference in Newtown, Conn. They try to remember the good days with their daughter. "It is what brings me great comfort and great joy," Márquez-Greene says.
    A Grieving Newtown Mother's Motto: 'Love Wins'
    As a therapist, Nelba Márquez-Greene has spent a career counseling mentally ill and troubled young people. But she'll never understand what drove a young man to take the life of her 6-year-old daughter and 25 others. A year later, she is trying to prevent violence and promote healing.
  • Parents Say School Security Has Increased Since Newtown Massacre
    More than 60 percent of parents with children in kindergarten through grade 5 reported increased security precautions, according to a recent poll. It was the first national survey since the 1999 Columbine tragedy to ask parents how schools reacted to a mass shooting.
  • Rosanne Cash, seen here in 1956 with her dad Johnny, is one of many musicians featured in <em>Oxford American</em> magazine's winter issue on the music of Tennessee.
    What Makes Tennessee's Music So Very Special?
    Oxford American magazine has a few answers, not to mention one killer Tennessee mixtape. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with editor Roger Hodge and music editor Rick Clark about assembling the magazine's new issue on the music of Tennessee and its companion two-CD sampler.
  • The Colobus Monkeys diorama at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, completed in 1941.
    In The Background: Art You May Never Notice
    Why that unassuming museum art — which you'll find behind taxidermic bison and birds — deserves a closer look.
  • A woman hugs a student at Shepherd of the Hills Church near Arapahoe High School after a school shooting on Friday in Centennial, Colorado.
    As Centennial, Colo., Picks Up The Pieces, Sandy Hook Marks Anniversary
    After a gunman burst onto a Centennial, Colo., high school, the community is asking a familiar question: Why? In
  • John Podesta was Bill Clinton's White House chief of staff from 1998 to 2001, helping the president survive impeachment.
    White House Hires A Crisis Manager, Easing Democratic Worries
    John Podesta, the newly named counselor to the president, is a second-term crisis management specialist who many Democrats hope will help the recently unsteady Obama White House get its act together.
  • Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky heads to the Senate floor to vote on Friday.
    Senate Takes a Break After 48-Hour Debate
    In the first Senate session since Democrats detonated the "nuclear option" and eliminated the minority's ability to filibuster most nominations, Republicans fought back by dragging debate out as long as possible, keeping the Senate in session for over 48 straight hours.
  • Ka'nard Allen, twice a victim of gun violence, started at a new this fall in New Orleans. Administrators say he's just like any other fifth-grader, despite all the adversity he's faced in his life.
    A Common Story: Bullet's Trajectory Interrupts Child's Path
    Ka'nard Allen, 11, has been caught in New Orleans crossfire — twice. He survived, but his extraordinary story made him a symbol of the toll violence takes on children in American cities. What happens after the bullets stop flying? How does a child get up after being gunned down?
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