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This comes despite expectations that it would be more tolerant than it had been in the past.

Lawmakers say they could raise as much as $16 billion dollars a year by taxing China and other countries that aren’t working to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

“I’m blessed to say that basketball has got me to a point, it laid down the groundwork and the foundation to allow me to do these other things. But that’s not who I am. That's my job, that’s not who I am.”

Israeli forces -- moving towards a June 1st deadline set by their government -- are pulling out of southern Lebanon. Israeli-allied militiamen are also fleeing the area that Israeli forces have occupied for the past 22-years. As they leave, Lebanese civilians are moving in. And Hizbolla forces have taken over 14 villages as the Israeli and SLA forces vacate the previously Israeli-occupied zone. Robert talks with Nicholas Blanford, a correspondent for the Daily Star, an English language newspaper in Beirut, Lebanon, about the situation.

Parts of southern Louisiana could see isolated rain totals of 20 inches through Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said. Hundreds of thousands of utility accounts are now without power in Texas.

A company formed by Harvard genetics professor George Church, known for his pioneering work in genome sequencing and gene splicing, hopes to genetically resurrect woolly mammoths.

The attack, described by the U.S. military as a "righteous strike" against a suspected ISIS bomber, killed three men and seven children.

The attacks killed 130 people.

Frahm has a brawny tenor sax sound, strong and consistent from top to bottom. His new trio album shows off his ability to use pacing and momentum to tell a compelling story.

Contemporary folk artist Gilbert talks with Lisa Simeone about how his identity drives his music. Gilbert is an African-American guitarist, singer and songwriter in a field dominated by whites. But he finds his music cuts across racial and ethnic lines. Excerpts from his latest CD Somerville Live (Disismye 003) recorded in his home state, Massachusetts.

Senate Democrats have come up with a new compromise bill on voting rights, which includes a voter ID provision. But their strategy to overcome a Republican filibuster is still unclear.

Presidential vaccine mandates go back to former President George Washington requiring the military to be inoculated against smallpox.