There were no indications, however, that officials were taking any steps to move forward with the idea or considered the president's words anything more than bluster.
The Gershwin estate stipulates that "Porgy and Bess" should be performed by an all-black cast. The Hungarian State Opera in Budapest reportedly asked its mostly white cast to say that they are black.
At StoryCorps, Ellen Hughes tells Keith Miller, who also has a son with autism, how much it meant to her when he comforted her son Walker on a difficult visit to the ER last year.
The state Senate passed a bill Thursday repealing capital punishment. The governor has threatened to veto it, but supporters have enough votes to override a veto.
The Trump administration gave transgender service members a deadline to secure a medical diagnosis before the new ban took hold. But military families are struggling with the accelerated timeline.
Prosecutors on Thursday played police body camera video in court showing the heartbreaking aftermath of the shooting of 911 caller Justine Ruszczyk. Ex-Minneapolis officer Mohamed Noor faces murder and manslaughter charges in her death.
Prosecutors for the first time in court played the 911 recordings of Justine Ruszczyk as they continued to present their case against former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor in her killing.