All Things Considered
Florida state Sens. (from left) Eleanor Sobel, Greg Evers and Rene Garcia discuss a congressional redistricting map on the floor of the Senate in 2014. Phil Sears/AP hide caption
Foreign Investors Fear Global Consequences Of Chinese Economic Uncertainty
Neanderthals, represented here by a museum's reconstruction, had been living in Eurasia for 200,000 years when Homo sapiens first passed through, and the communities intermingled. The same genes that today play a role in allergies very likely fostered a quick response to local bacteria, viruses and other pathogens, scientists say. Pierre Andrieu/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Florida state Sens. (from left) Eleanor Sobel, Greg Evers and Rene Garcia discuss a congressional redistricting map on the floor of the Senate in 2014. Phil Sears/AP hide caption
Family members of Shafqat Hussain, who was convicted and hanged in Pakistan in August for killing a boy in 2004, waited to receive his body outside the central jail in Karachi. Pakistan executed more than 300 people last year. Fareed Khan/AP hide caption
Fewer Countries Are Relying On Death Penalty, But They're Executing More
Bo Sailor watches Thursday as high surf crashes into the seawall before spilling onto Channel Drive in Montecito, Calif. An ocean-water-quality advisory was issued for the area after a number of December and early-January storms pummeled Southern California with heavy rainfall. Mike Eliason/AP hide caption
Pastor Stephen Parson holds one of Donald Trump's books before meeting with the candidate in New York last November. Parson is now one of three pastors who say a new rule in Virginia requiring primary voters to sign a pledge before getting a Republican ballot is discriminatory. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
Pastors Say Va. GOP Loyalty Pledge Creates 'Burden Of Fear' For Black Voters
Oregon Ranchers Historically Divided Over Management Of Public Lands
Man In Fake Explosive Vest Killed As Paris Remembers 'Charlie Hebdo'
Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett (right) begin a love affair after meeting in a department store in Carol. Weinstein Co. hide caption
'Carol' Star Cate Blanchett On The 'Empathetic Connection' Of Acting
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