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The two states in the news over the past week with high-profile mass shootings have taken big steps in recent years to tighten gun laws. Is a focus on open carry or mental health the best way forward?

"What the Grand Ole Opry did for country music, she has done for Southern food," one writer says of Hach, host of the South's first TV cooking show and a cookbook author and caterer for world leaders.

Men and women at Fort Campbell in Kentucky react to new rules allowing women to serve in combat positions.

Jenni Kosse worked in the Division of Environmental Health in San Bernardino for more than 20 years. She knew most of the people who were killed or injured by Syed Farook, and she knew Farook, too.

The Pentagon has declared all military jobs will be open to women — and now it must begin deciding how it will actually implement that directive. How far along are the plans to admit women to tank crews, the 75th Ranger Regiment, the Navy SEALs and other such elite units?

Also this week: How classic video games are teaching computers to learn.

"Terrorists in Syria pose a special threat," Putin says. "Many people there are from Russia, and if they win in Syria, sooner or later they will come to Russia as well."

The U.S. economy turned up encouraging signs for most Americans. Workers can now find more jobs, and drive to them using cheaper gas. And retirement accounts are getting a boost from rising stocks.

Cable news outlets broadcast a tour of the home of Syed Farook, suspect in the San Bernadino shooting. Some included images of drivers' licenses, and Social Security cards. The backlash was swift.

One of the alleged shooters in the San Bernardino attack came to the United States on a K-1, or fiancé, visa. NPR's Richard Gonzales looks at how obtaining a fiancé visa isn't easy and may get tougher.