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Despite an influx of edible marijuana from neighboring Colorado, lawmakers in Wyoming are looking to maintain strict weight limits for felony pot possession.

The Minnesota Democrat, speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill for the first time since multiple accusations of sexual harassment, said he is sorry but reiterated he would not give up his Senate seat.

The president of Howard University in Washington, D.C. faces the results of a no-confidence vote from Howard's faculty. Students there have been protesting for more than a week.

An unarmed black man was killed by Sacramento police in March. The coroner says he was shot seven times, three times in the back. A private autopsy found he was shot eight times, mostly in the back.

There is a list of names of just about everyone with a social security number who has died. It is meant to prevent identity theft. But sometimes a name of a living person gets added by accident.

Sharif's daughter and son-in-law also got prison terms Friday over the scandal that doomed his premiership last year. It's unclear when the Sharifs, who are in London, would serve their penalties.

From the ultimate Olympic reference book to an account of the last London Games, bibliophile cabbie Will Grozier recommends books that put both the 2012 Games and their host city in context.

If you love to watch the Olympics, this is your year: NBC is pumping out more than 5,500 hours of video to your TV and digital devices. But how do you go about watching online, or on your phone or tablet? Here's a guide to the offerings, and how you can access them.

Turkey issued its first official response since one of its planes being shot down by Syrian air defense. The Turkish foreign minister is charging that the incident was an act of aggression, and he says Turkey will take its case to NATO and to the United Nations. Guest host David Greene talks with NPR's Deborah Amos.

An iconic piece of the Wild West goes up for sale: the gun that killed Billy the Kid.