Ryland Barton

The cost to fill up her Silverado in Birmingham, Alabama, makes Mary Kaiser numb.

Louisiana has postponed its congressional primary election after a new Supreme Court ruling that further weakens the landmark Voting Rights Act.

As NPR's Hansi Lawong reports, Republican officials in some other southern states are also pushing to redraw congressional maps in time for this year's midterm election.

The House has voted to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security and bring an end to the longest agency shutdown in history.

The bipartisan package had already passed the Senate and it now goes to President Trump.

The shutdown has lasted for 75 days as Democrats refused to fund Trump's immigration enforcement operations without changes.

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The first direct flight between the U.S.

and Venezuela in seven years has arrived in the capital Caracas.

The U.S.

suspended flights in 2019 over safety concerns.

The resumption comes after the U.S.

reopened its embassy following the Trump administration's capture of President Nicolas Maduro.

A scientist who played a critical role in the sequencing of the human genome has died.

NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce reports J. Craig Venter's work accelerated the mapping of humanity's DNA.

41-year-old skiing star Lindsey Vonn says she's not ready to make a decision of whether to race again as she continues to recover from her frightening crash at the Winter Olympics.

She's undergone eight surgeries after suffering a complex left leg fracture.

She says a return would be at least a year and a half away.

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Ryland Barton.