Grand Canyon National Park will remain open to the public during the shutdown.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is eliminating tuition starting next fall for all undergraduate students from families earning less than $200,000 per year.

For Texans who live in El Paso, just over the state line, Sunland Park, N.M., has lately become a regular destination because of the city’s many cannabis dispensaries.

Dutch Merrick, a veteran entertainment industry armorer, with two kinds of cartridges often found on film sets. On the left is a blank, which produces a bang and a flash when fired, and on the right is a dummy round, which is inert and cannot be fired.