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California, an epicenter of the housing crisis in the United States, will now have one agency overseeing programs intended to address affordability.

From member station KQED, Adita Bundimudi reports that California leaders say the new system will make affordable, they say, housing cheaper to build.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating how a man got onto an active runway late Friday night at Denver International Airport.

He was struck and killed by a Frontier Airlines jet that was taking off.

The flight, 4345, with 231 people on board, was departing from Los Angeles to Los Angeles.

Then when the pilots notified air traffic control, the takeoff was aborted.

Of the people on board the plane, 12 people suffered minor injuries, five were hospitalized.

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Virginia's Democratic Attorney General Friday said he would appeal a state court ruling that struck down a voter-approved congressional redistricting plan.

In the ongoing redistricting battle between Republicans and Democrats, the plan would have possibly given Democrats four more seats in the November election.

Jad Khalil of VPM in Richmond has more on the decision.

The appeal will be made to the U.S.

Supreme Court.

The Trump administration released files Friday that it described as new on UFOs.

It comes after criticism over recent lack of transparency at the Pentagon.

NPR's Katia Riddle reports.

New York State is set to ban ICE agents from wearing masks and prohibit state and local officials from formally cooperating with immigration enforcement.

NPR's Jasmine Garz has more.

Wall Street finished the week in positive territory.