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About a dozen dispensaries in central Ohio got the green light to begin selling recreational marijuana on Tuesday. Almost 100 in the state got a certificate of operation from the Ohio Division of Cannabis Control.

Today marked the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500. We get the sounds from today's historic race, won by rookie driver Alexander Rossi.

General Manuel Noriega, who was de facto leader of Panama before his ouster by U.S. troops in 1989, has died. Noreiga was brought to the U.S. where he was tried and imprisoned for drug trafficking.

Brzezinski was the national security adviser to President Carter, helping to secure the Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt. He later continued to be an influential foreign policy voice.

Over the weekend, Donald Trump said his administration will focus on deporting undocumented immigrants with criminal records. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Julie Myers Wood, a former head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency under former President George W. Bush.

In that same time, the Obama administration faced five suits; George W. Bush had four. Most of the suits against the Trump administration are about his temporary travel ban and refugee restrictions.

President Trump says he has chosen Christopher Wray, who worked in the Justice Department during President George W. Bush's administration, to head the FBI.

In 2002, Lincoln Chafee was the only Republican senator to vote against authorizing the use of force to oust Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Some Republican colleagues referred to him as "the missing Linc."

Novelists Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman and George S. Schuyler forged their art in what W.E.B. Du Bois famously called the "double-consciousness" of African-Americans.

The State of the Union tradition of inviting extraordinary Americans to sit with the first lady began under Ronald Reagan in 1982. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Gerhard Peters, co-director of the American Presidency Project at the University of California — Santa Barbara, who is also a political science professor at Citrus College, about the tradition.