Ryland Barton

Proponents of raw milk are pushing to make the unpasteurized product more widely available.

More than three dozen bills supporting raw milk have been introduced in state houses across the nation.

Momentum is growing.

Even as a new E. coli outbreak sickens U.S.

children, health officials have long warned that raw milk can contain potentially deadly germs.

A London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita is coming to New York, starring Rachel Ziegler, who played Maria in the remake of West Side Story.

Jeff London reports.

A barge carrying a stranded humpback whale named Timmy has begun its journey toward the North Sea.

The whale was spotted near Germany's Baltic Sea coast in March, far from its Atlantic Ocean habitat.

It repeatedly became stranded in shallow waters.

Now rescuers are using a flooded barge to move it.

German officials describe the operation as unprecedented and successful.

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The U.S.

Supreme Court has weakened the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination in redistricting.

NPR's Hansi Lo Wong reports the ruling comes out of a case about Louisiana's congressional map.

Iran's national rial currency has hit a record low of $1.8 million as a shaky ceasefire with the U.S.

and Israel holds.

Experts warn the fall of the rial is likely to further fuel inflation.