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Pakistan banned a hard-line Islamist party on Thursday, more than a week after heated clashes with police that left at least five people dead.

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The parties in lawsuits seeking damages for last year's Maui wildfires have reached a $4 billion global settlement, a court filing said Friday.

How will our diets shift as climate change causes sea-level rise and coastal flooding? Photographer Allie Wist attempts to answer that with pictures of an imagined "post-sea-level-rise dinner party."

This week, we've got annoying holiday movies, chatty White House insiders, and cheese.

Paul Davis (D-Lawrence) speaking to reporters at the Statehouse. (Photo by Stephen Koranda)With only a short time remaining in the legislative session, Kansas lawmakers have yet to finish redistricting. That’s the process of redrawing districts for members of Congress and the state Legislature. The slow progress has the top Democrat in the House calling for reform. Paul Davis, of Lawrence, is the House minority leader.00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa7aa840000 If lawmakers don’t finish by the end of next week, they’ll have to continue the process in late April when they return to Topeka for the final days of the session. The House has yet to pass a plan to redraw congressional districts, while senators have not finished a map redrawing their own districts.

Lower earnings this year are forcing five-star restaurants across the country to look for ways to cut costs without compromising quality. In Portland, Maine, chef Sam Hayward is sustaining his clientele with homegrown comfort foods that are less expensive to prepare — like fish cakes and beans.

These area headlines are curated by KPR news staffers, including J. Schafer, Laura Lorson, Kaye McIntyre, and Tom Parkinson. Our headlines are generally posted by 10 am weekdays, 11 am weekends. This news summary is made possible by KPR listener-members. Become one today.

It was 75 years ago this week that Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, securing a victory that would alter the course of World War II and the future of the world. June 6, 1944 - known forever more as D-Day - marked a major turning point in the European theater of war. In this report, University of Kansas military history professor Adrian Lewis talks about the invasion - and the soldiers who made the difference between success and failure.

(Photo Credit: commons.wikimedia.org)Kansas is one of the top ten most expensive states in the country when it comes to cell phone taxes. Scott Mackey is an economist with K-S-E Partners, which analyzed cell phone costs, state-by-state.Mackey says neighboring Nebraska is also one of the most expensive states in the U.S. for cell phone taxes at nearly 25 percent...the least expensive states are Nevada and Oregon, at just 7 percent.