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NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Gina McCarthy, the White House national climate advisor, about the Supreme Court's ruling that limits the EPA's ability to set carbon-emission limits.

The country's Supreme Court said a move by Prime Minister Imran Khan to dissolve parliament rather than face a no-confidence vote was unconstitutional. What happens next isn't entirely clear.

Spring is starting to come forth across the country... slowly in some places, too quick in others. Debbie Elliott discusses changes in the season with Bruce Stutz, author of the new book Chasing Spring: An American Journey Through a Changing Season.

A bill to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in nine years failed in the Senate last week. But in a number of states, fall ballot measures would raise the minimum wage above the federal level. Would low-wage workers be helped or harmed if these measures pass? Economists are divided.

Madeleine Brand talks with Slate legal analyst Emily Bazelon about some more U.S. Supreme Court rulings handed down Monday morning. The decisions include the reversal of a murder conviction for a black inmate in Texas who claimed that prosecutors illegally stacked his jury with whites, and the court's refusal to expedite a hearing for "dirty bomb" terrorist suspect Jose Padilla.

Two new albums from Let's Eat Grandma and Girlpool wistfully accept the inherent grief that comes with facing adulthood.

Former U.S. Rep. Abby Finkenauer is facing a tougher-than-expected Democratic U.S. Senate primary in a state that has become more of a GOP stronghold in the last decade.

Rolando Arrieta joins New Orleans residents on a bus tour through their Ninth Ward neighborhood, where they observe the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the floods that swept through the city three months ago.

The wind energy industry faces new challenges over the infrastructure to transport that energy to more populated cities and local landowners who don't want the turbines cluttering up their landscapes.

A key primary re-affirmed Trump's hold on the Republican party. Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney lost her race in a landslide, defeated by a Trump-endorsed political newcomer: attorney Harriet Hageman.