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State Sen. Burke Harr says Nebraska's flag flew upside down at the state capitol for 10 days and nobody noticed. Whoever raised it didn't realize the blacksmith hammering an anvil was on his head.

The home state of Vice President Mike Pence has asked the federal government to approve an extension of its carrot-and-stick approach to Medicaid that was made possible by the Affordable Care Act.

You'd think it would be a simple matter of looking at a few genes from Mom and Dad. But scientists say they've already found more than 700 variants that affect height and are still counting.

The state Senate is holding its first public hearing this week on a bill that would allow Texas to withhold funding for local counties or cities that refuse to cooperate with federal officials on immigration issues.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks about the EPA transition with Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and administrator of the EPA from 2001 to 2003.

Washoe County has been inundated with complaints about its new agreement with Waste Management and the company's difficulty serving customers during…

Legal expert Jeffrey Rosen says of the Supreme Court nominee: "If he thought that individual liberty was threatened by presidential or congressional overreaching, then he would step in."

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's latest film is one of the five nominees for this year's foreign-language Academy Award. Critic David Edelstein says The Salesman is tense and powerful.

For the first time in its 140-year history, cats will now compete in the Westminster Dog Show.

The new BET miniseries, Madiba, starring Laurence Fishburne as Nelson Mandela, premieres Wednesday night. BET says the show is at the heart of their Black History Month programming. The show is also part of the latest attempt to redefine the BET brand with high quality scripted shows.