U.S. Sen. Cory Booker and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, along with others, have tried for months to reach agreement on police reform. Those efforts fizzled Wednesday.
The Senate's top Democrat has joined one of New Jersey's U.S. senators in backing a bill that would strike down a longstanding federal prohibition on marijuana.
New Jersey was among the first states to prohibit unfair treatment of natural hair styles closely associated with race. There's a new push to make it a federal law, too.