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Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced Thursday the creation of a group to investigate and revise the number of deaths associated with Hurricane Maria.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is giving U.S. attorneys the green light to enforce federal pot laws, even in states where its sale and use is legal.

Cancer deaths have fallen again, thanks mostly to huge declines in smoking, the American Cancer Society says. But more than 600,000 people will die of cancer.

Pro-Working People Laws Catching on Around the Country

While Congress and the White House refuse to act, momentum for paid family leave legislation at the state level is growing. 

As the new year begins, New York, Nevada and Washington state are implementing paid family leave laws, and Rhode Island will join them in July. Rhode Island will bring the total number of states with a paid family leave law to eight. 

NPR breaks down the legislation going into effect relating to paid family leave:

Washington on Monday became the seventh state—in addition to Washington, D.C.—to require employers to offer paid sick leave to their workers. Rhode Island is set to become the eighth to do so later this year, when its own law takes effect in July.

Meanwhile, New York has joined the small handful of states that require employers to provide paid family leave benefits. There, as NBC reports, employees will eventually be entitled to up to 12 weeks a year once the law takes full effect.

And in Nevada, employers are now required to offer up to 160 hours of leave per 12-month period to workers who have been—or whose family members...