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The high school rape case in Steubenville, Ohio raised uncomfortable questions about how young people learn about their sexual rights and responsibilities. Host Michel Martin talks about the real sex education teens should be getting, with author Laura Sessions Stepp, attorney B.J. Bernstein, and youth mentor Malik Washington.

Republicans are favored to take control of the chamber thanks to a 2024 map of races that tilts disproportionately in the GOP’s favor. Here are the races to watch.

Police arrested 44 people after another round of protests — these quieter than the unrest that erupted after the decision not to charge officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

In the New York Congressional district where an an unarmed black man died at the hands of police last year, neither candidate for a special congressional election is using the death to score points.

While Darren Wilson will avoid federal charges for the death of Michael Brown, the Justice Department did find racial bias in the Ferguson, Mo., police and justice system.

The jury found Dominique Heaggan-Brown, the former Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot Sylville Smith in a foot chase last summer, not guilty of first-degree reckless homicide on Wednesday.

By Patrick Dongeshttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-970113.mp3Pittsfield, MA – Congressman John Olver, who has…

Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown, barraged by criticism for the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, will no longer lead the relief effort on Gulf Coast and instead will work on "big picture" issues in Washington, D.C.

Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke wants to move the Bureau of Land Management out of Washington, D.C., to the West. Now cities in Western states full of public lands are jockeying to be the new BLM hub.

In what's being called the "Barbie boost," people are going out to the movies again. But can brick & mortar theatres sustain that momentum against the pressures of the Hollywood strikes?