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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Daniel Salazar, reporter for the Wichita Eagle, about the special congressional election in Kansas.

Alabama has a new governor following the resignation of two-term Republican Robert Bentley. Kay Ivey is just the second woman to lead the state and the first Republican woman.

Proposed budget cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency could leave state environmental agencies doing more with less money. But many say they are already strapped.

Veteran city councilman Ryan Coonerty offers this advice to newcomer Charles Johnson: get to know your colleagues, carry a business card and practice using giant scissors beforethe ribbon-cutting.

Rachel Martin speaks with Washington Post reporter Adam Entous. The newspaper reports that the FBI got a FISA court warrant to monitor communications of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page last year.

Companies touting their wares at an annual border security conference in Texas are more upbeat than usual. The expo features cameras mounted on telescoping poles, spotlight weapons and lots of drones.

Some residents of the Indian-administered Kashmir Valley are using more aggressive tactics to thwart Indian security forces: Women are placing themselves, literally, between militants and soldiers.

A new study has found an association between frequent drinking of diet sodas and an increased risk of both stroke and dementia.

A March for Science will be held Saturday in Washington, D.C., and hundreds of other cities in the U.S. Organizers say the march is a non-partisan celebration of science. It's meant to both encourage political leaders to fund science and rely on scientific evidence when making policy decisions. Critics worry the march will turn into an anti-Trump rally and paint scientists as just another interest group.

Citizen Jane: Battle for the Cityis a documentary about Jane Jacobs, whose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities changed urban planning.