The Northern Arapaho tribe in Wyoming has won a permit to hunt two bald eagles for religious purposes. It's the first time federal authorities have granted such approval for bald eagles. The move comes in the wake of a lawsuit that alleged that refusing such permits violated tribe members' religious freedom.

At the U.S. Supreme Court Monday, the justices heard arguments in a case testing whether children conceived through in vitro fertilization after the death of a parent are eligible for Social Security survivors benefits.

There's a border dispute brewing in the U.S., but it's not between with Canada or Mexico. It's a different north/south rivalry, between the Carolinas. Residents who live on the state line are upset at an effort to re-draw it. The states say they're not changing the line, just "clarifying it". But that's not how it seems to a few residents who liked the state they used to live in.

The Supreme Court listened to oral arguments on Monday in a case that asks whether a child that is conceived and born by in vitro fertilization after the father's death is entitled to Social Security survivors' benefits.

As many as half of the world's languages are at risk of disappearing by the end of the century. More aboriginal groups around the world, including Oregon's Siletz tribe, are using "talking dictionaries" and other digital tools to help preserve their native languages.