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Legislators in the House and Senate came to an agreement this week on a proposal to increase the fuel efficiency standard for cars and light trucks to 35 miles per gallon by 2020. NPR's Elizabeth Shogren reports that the outlook for the legislation remains uncertain.

The girls fell "between 35 and 45 feet," according to officials. One girl sustained a traumatic brain injury. The incident comes a day after a boy died while riding a waterslide in Kansas.

The shutdown affects some 35,000 students and more than 8,000 employees in 38 states. ITT Technical Institutes blamed the Education Department, which recently imposed financial sanctions.

December's job growth is down slightly from the three previous months, when employers added an average of 200,000 jobs. But the unemployment rate held steady at 3.5%, matching a 50-year low.

The latest NPR-IBM Watson Health poll found that 29% of people said they were often angry when checking the news. Another 42% said the news sometimes made them angry.

Andrew Brunson faces up to 35 years in prison on charges of aiding groups that Turkey blames for a failed coup in 2016. He is among thousands accused of having links to cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Hamilton County has now allocated all but $150,000 of the federal money it received to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Updated Dec. 10. Two more Hamilton County judges have dismissed charges against 66 people arrested this spring during Black Lives Matter demonstrations,...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged people find an alternative option for celebrating the holiday — with an aim to avoid large crowds and indoor gatherings.

With the registration deadline just days away on Monday, Oct. 5, Ohio House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes (D-Akron) is leading efforts to register Black women voters in Ohio. We Belong Here, a political action committee (PAC) Sykes created earlier this year, has identified roughly 35,000 Black female voters who moved from urban areas to the suburbs but never re-registered in their new location. Sykes and her PAC are targeting those voters with digital ads on Facebook.